Jump to content

Fukuia ooyagii

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fukuia ooyagii
A live individual of Fukuia ooyagii viewed from the anterior end
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Genus:
Species:
F. ooyagii
Binomial name
Fukuia ooyagii
Minato, 1982
Synonyms

Fukuia kurodai ooyagii Minato, 1982

Fukuia ooyagii is a species of freshwater snail which has an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[1]

Taxonomy

[edit]

According to the molecular analyses of 18S ribosomal RNA, 28S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA, and cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes by Kameda & Kato (2011)[1] Fukuia ooyagii should be separated from Fukuia, and its generic assignment should be determined coupled with the investigation of its soft-part morphology.[1] The most closely related genus is Blanfordia.[1]

Distribution

[edit]

This species is endemic to the northern part of Honshu, Japan.[1]

A live Fukuia ooyagii clinging to a wet rocky wall

Ecology

[edit]

This species is freshwater snail living in mountain streamlets.[1]

References

[edit]

This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from the reference[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.