''Gammatricula'' is a
genus of
freshwater snail
Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...
s which have a
gill and an
operculum,
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks or
micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also ...
s in the
family Pomatiopsidae.
Distribution
The distribution of ''Gammatricula'' includes
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Gammatricula'' include:
* ''
Gammatricula chinensis'' ..., 1990
* ''
Gammatricula fujianensis'' (Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1983)
[Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". '' BMC Evolutionary Biology'' 11: 118. .]
* ''
Gammatricula shini'' (Habe, 1961)
* ''
Gammatricula songi'' Davis, Chen & Yu, 1994
References
Pomatiopsidae
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