''Mayabina'' is a
genus
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of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing
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,
aquatic pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
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
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s in the subfamily Aplexinae of the family
Physidae
Physidae, common name the bladder snails, is a monophyletic taxonomic family of small air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Lymnaeoidea .MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Physidae Fitzin ...
.
[ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mayabina D. W. Taylor, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057349 on 2021-06-26]
Species
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Mayabina bullula''
(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1882)
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Mayabina carolita''
(Jousseaume, 1887)
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Mayabina nitidula''
(Clessin, 1886)
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Mayabina obtusa
''Mayabina'' 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. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mayabina D. W. Taylor, ...
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(Clessin, 1885)
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Mayabina petenensis''
D. W. Taylor, 2003
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Mayabina pliculosa''
(E. von Martens, 1898)
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Mayabina polita''
D. W. Taylor, 2003
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Mayabina sanctijohannis
''Mayabina'' 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. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mayabina D. W. Taylor, ...
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D. W. Taylor, 2003
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Mayabina spiculata
''Mayabina'' 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. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mayabina D. W. Taylor, ...
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(Morelet, 1849)
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Mayabina tapanensis
''Mayabina'' 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. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mayabina D. W. Taylor, ...
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(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1882)
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Mayabina tempisquensis
''Mayabina'' 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
Physidae, common name the bladder snails, is a monophyletic ...
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D. W. Taylor, 2003
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent freshwater/brackish Gastropoda of the World. Last update: January 24th, 2018
External links
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)
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Physidae