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Assiminea

Assiminea is a genus of minute, salt-tolerant snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks, in the family Assimineidae.[1]

Assiminea
Apertural view of a shell of Assiminea grayana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Assimineidae
Genus: Assiminea
Fleming, 1828
Type species
Assiminea grayiana
J. Fleming, 1828
Synonyms
  • Assemania Knight, 1900 (unjustified emendation)
  • Assiminea (Assiminea) J. Fleming, 1828
  • Assiminia J. Fleming, 1828 (alternative original spelling [used in the index p. 557])
  • Bythinia (Assiminea) J. Fleming, 1828
  • Syncera Gray 1821 (nomen nudum)

Distribution and habitat edit

These snails can be found worldwide. They live usually in brackish water and salt marshes of tropical and temperate regions, at beaches, in water and at land.

Description edit

These are very small to medium large snails, between 2 and 13 mm). Some adults do not exceed a size of 3 mm. The shape of the thin shells is somewhat ovately conical. The margin of the aperture is simple. The operculum is in most cases horny.[2][3] The eyes are at the end of short, stout stalks. They feed on vegetable detritus and small algae. They lay their eggs in the mud, and hatch as free-swimming larvae.

Species edit

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Assiminea :[4]

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use :[6]

The database ITIS also mentions the following species :[7]

Species brought into synonymy

References edit

 
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  • Fleming, J. 1828. A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematic arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. - pp. i-xxxii [= 1-23], 1-565, [1]. Edinburgh. (Bell & Bradfute).
  • Knight G.A.F. 1900. The etymology of the names Azeca and Assiminea of Leach. Journal of Conchology, 9: 271-276
  • R. Tucker Abbott, The Gastropod Genus Assiminea in the Philippines; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 110 (1958), pp. 213–278
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.
  • van Aartsen (2008). Basteria 72 (4-6) : 165-181
  1. ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Assiminea Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137681 on 2015-04-29
  2. ^ "AnimalBase :: Assiminea genus homepage". www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  3. ^ Abbott, R. Tucker (1958). "The Gastropod Genus Assiminea in the Philippines". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 110: 213–278. JSTOR 4064531.
  4. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Assiminea J. Fleming, 1828". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  5. ^ "Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute [electronic resource]". rsnz.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  6. ^ "Indo-Pacific Molluscan Species Database at The Academy of Natural Sciences". clade.ansp.org. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  7. ^ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Assiminea". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
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