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Assiminea

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Assiminea
Apertural view of a shell of Assiminea grayana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Assimineidae
Genus: Assiminea
Fleming, 1828
Type species
Assiminea grayiana
J. Fleming, 1828
Synonyms
  • Assemania Knight, 1900 (unjustified emendation)
  • Assiminea (Assiminea) J. Fleming, 1828
  • Assiminia J. Fleming, 1828 (alternative original spelling [used in the index p. 557])
  • Bythinia (Assiminea) J. Fleming, 1828
  • Syncera Gray 1821 (nomen nudum)

Assiminea is a genus of minute, salt-tolerant snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks, or micromollusks, in the family Assimineidae.[1]

Distribution and habitat

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These snails can be found worldwide. They live usually in brackish water and salt marshes of tropical and temperate regions, at beaches, in water and at land.

Description

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These are very small to medium large snails, between 2 and 13 mm). Some adults do not exceed a size of 3 mm. The shape of the thin shells is somewhat ovately conical. The margin of the aperture is simple. The operculum is in most cases horny.[2][3] The eyes are at the end of short, stout stalks. They feed on vegetable detritus and small algae. They lay their eggs in the mud, and hatch as free-swimming larvae.

Species

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According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Assiminea :[4]

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also includes the following species with names in current use :[6]

The database ITIS also mentions the following species :[7]

Species brought into synonymy

References

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  • Fleming, J. 1828. A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematic arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. – pp. i–xxxii [= 1–23], 1–565, [1]. Edinburgh. (Bell & Bradfute).
  • Knight G.A.F. 1900. The etymology of the names Azeca and Assiminea of Leach. Journal of Conchology, 9: 271–276
  • R. Tucker Abbott, The Gastropod Genus Assiminea in the Philippines; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 110 (1958), pp. 213–278
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp.
  • van Aartsen (2008). Basteria 72 (4–6) : 165–181
  1. ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Assiminea Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137681 on 29 April 2015
  2. ^ "AnimalBase :: Assiminea genus homepage". www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  3. ^ Abbott, R. Tucker (1958). "The Gastropod Genus Assiminea in the Philippines". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 110: 213–278. JSTOR 4064531.
  4. ^ "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Assiminea J. Fleming, 1828". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute [electronic resource]". rsnz.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Indo-Pacific Molluscan Species Database at The Academy of Natural Sciences". clade.ansp.org. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  7. ^ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Assiminea". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
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