Helicostoa | |
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Syntypes of Helicostoa sinensis. | |
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Family: | Helicostoidae
Pruvot-Fol, 1937
[1]
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Genus: | Helicostoa |
Species: | H. sinensis
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Binomial name | |
Helicostoa sinensis Lamy, 1926
[2]
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Helicostoa is a monotypic genus of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the order Littorinimorpha containing the single species Helicostoa sinensis. [3]
Helicostoa is also the only genus in the family Helicostoidae. [4] According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Helicostoidae has no subfamilies.
Helicostoa sinensis was previously tentatively placed within the superfamily Rissooidea. [3] and before that it was in the superfamily Vermetoidea. [3]
Helicostoa sinensis is only found in China, [4] more specifically in the Yangtze River. [3]
This freshwater snail lives attached or bonded to blocks of limestone. [4]
Helicostoa | |
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Syntypes of Helicostoa sinensis. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
(unranked): | |
Superfamily: | |
Family: | Helicostoidae
Pruvot-Fol, 1937
[1]
|
Genus: | Helicostoa |
Species: | H. sinensis
|
Binomial name | |
Helicostoa sinensis Lamy, 1926
[2]
|
Helicostoa is a monotypic genus of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the order Littorinimorpha containing the single species Helicostoa sinensis. [3]
Helicostoa is also the only genus in the family Helicostoidae. [4] According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Helicostoidae has no subfamilies.
Helicostoa sinensis was previously tentatively placed within the superfamily Rissooidea. [3] and before that it was in the superfamily Vermetoidea. [3]
Helicostoa sinensis is only found in China, [4] more specifically in the Yangtze River. [3]
This freshwater snail lives attached or bonded to blocks of limestone. [4]