Mexinauta

Genus of gastropods

Mexinauta
Shell of Mexinauta impluviatus(syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Physidae
Genus: Mexinauta
D. W. Taylor, 2003
Type species
Physa nitens Philippi, 1841

Mexinauta is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Aplexinae of the family Physidae. [1]

Species

  • Mexinauta aurantius (Carpenter, 1857)
  • Mexinauta gracilentus (P. Fischer & Crosse, 1886)
  • Mexinauta impluviatus (Morelet, 1849)
  • Mexinauta laetus (E. von Martens, 1898)
  • Mexinauta nicaraguanus (Morelet, 1851)
  • Mexinauta nitens (Philippi, 1841)
  • Mexinauta peruvianus (Gray, 1828)
  • Mexinauta princeps (Phillips, 1846)
Synonyms
  • Mexinauta aurantia (Carpenter, 1857): synonym of Mexinauta aurantius (Carpenter, 1857) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet; Mexinauta is masculine")

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mexinauta D. W. Taylor, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057350 on 2021-07-16

External links

  • Media related to Mexinauta at Wikimedia Commons
  • Taylor, D. W. (2003). Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); biogeography, classification, morphology. Revista de Biología Tropical. 51(Suppl. 1): 1-263 (includes a Catalog of species, pp. 197-263)


Taxon identifiers
Mexinauta