''Sibirenauta'' is a
genus of 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 ...
mollusks in the family Physidae.
The scientific name ''Sibirenauta'' is composed from the word
Siberia, where its species live and from the
Latin word ''nauta'', that means "sailor".
Distribution
Distribution the genus ''Sibirenauta'' ranges from
Siberia to
Canada and the
United States of America.
Species
Species in the genus ''Sibirenauta'' include:
* ''
Sibirenauta depressior
''Sibirenauta'' is a genus of left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.
The scientific name ''Sibirenauta'' is composed from the word Siberia, where its species live ...
'' (Middendorff, 1851) - type species
[Taylor D. W. (2003). "Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila). Biology, classification, morphology". '' Revista de Biología Tropical']
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* ''
Sibirenauta elongatus'' (Say, 1821)
* ''
Sibirenauta pictus'' (Krause, 1883)
* ''
Sibirenauta sibiricus
''Sibirenauta sibirica'' is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae, a family which are sometimes known as the bladder snails.
Taxonomy
Swedish malacologist Carl Agardh We ...
'' (Westerlund, 1877)
References
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Physidae