''Glyptophysa'' is a
genus of medium-sized sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing
freshwater snail
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s,
aquatic pulmonate
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gastropod
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mollusks in the family of
Planorbidae.
[Bouchet, P.; Marshall, B. (2017). Glyptophysa Crosse, 1872. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818281 on 2018-01-20]
Description
Shells are medium-sized, smooth and globose to elongate. Shells of Glyptophysa are always sinistral. "Members of the genus possess a twist or fold on the columella, a feature lacking in ''Isidorella'' and ''Physella''. Whorls round or carinate."
Distribution
Australia
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,
New Guinea,
New Caledonia
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,
New Zealand,
Moluccas,
Philippines,
Sumatra
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, islands of South Pacific east to
Tahiti, and
Malaysia (introduced).
Habitat and ecology
Often found on water weeds, submerged wood, rocks, gravel and sand in ponds,
billabongs, swamps, and sluggish streams and rivers(both still and flowing). Occasionally on mud. "Feeds on
algae
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and
detritus
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."
''Glyptophysa'' snails are grazers-
scrapers.
Species
Species in this genus include:
* ''
Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) aliciae''
Reeve, 1862
* ''
Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) georgiana''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) – King George's Freshwater Snail
[IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. . Retrieved 3 July 2012.]
* ''
Glyptophysa (Oppletora) jukesii''
(H.Adams, 1861)
* ''
Glyptophysa multistrigata'' (Cooke, 1889) – tentatively placed here
* ''
Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) novaehollandica''
(Bowdich, 1822)
** ''
Glyptophysa gibbosa'' (Gould, 1846)
(now treated as a
synonym
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of ''G. novaehollandica)''
** ''
Glyptophysa badia'' (Adams and Angas, 1864) (now treated as a
synonym
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of ''G. novaehollandica)''
* ''
Glyptophysa oconnori'' Cumber, 1941
* ''
Glyptophysa petiti
''Glyptophysa petiti'' is a species of small sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing freshwater snail, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members o ...
'' (Crosse 1872) – type species
[Walker J. C. (1988). "Classification of Australian buliniform planorbids (Mollusca: Pulmonata)". '']Records of the Australian Museum
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'' 40: 61-89
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* ''
Glyptophysa proteus'' (Sowerby, 1873) – tentatively placed here
* ''
Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) vandiemenensis''
(Sowerby, 1873)
* ''
Glyptophysa variabilis'' (Gray, 1843)
References
External links
* http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/Freshwater_Oct18/Media/Html/glyptophysa.htm
Crosse H. (1872). Description d'un genre nouveau, et d'espèces inédites, provenant de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie. 20: 148-154
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