''Idiopyrgus souleyetianus'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
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 ...
with
gills
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and an
operculum, an
aquatic 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 ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the family
Tomichiidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Idiopyrgus souleyetianus Pilsbry, 1911. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=740265 on 2023-03-13]
''Idiopyrgus souleyetianus'' is the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
of the genus ''Idiopyrgus''.
Distribution
The distribution of ''Idiopyrgus souleyetianus'' includes
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
[Clark Lima L. & Souza C. P. de (1990). "Occurrence of hidrobioid (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda) in Pedro Leopoldo and Lagoa Santa counties, MG, Brazil". '' Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo'' 32(2): 86-90. .]
References
External links
Salvador, R. B.; Silva, F. S.; Bichuette, M. E. (2022). Phylogenetic position of the relict South American genus Idiopyrgus Pilsbry, 1911 (Gastropoda, Truncatelloidea), with the description of two new cave species. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 98(2): 365-375
Truncatelloidea
Gastropods described in 1911
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