Hubendickia
Encyclopedia
Hubendickia is a genus
of freshwater snail
s with gills and an operculum
, aquatic
gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s with gills and an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae
Pomatiopsidae
Pomatiopsidae is a family of small mainly freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea ....
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Distribution
The distribution of the genus Hubendickia includes Thailand and China.Species
Species within the genus Hubendickia include:- Hubendickia cingulata Brandt, 1974
- Hubendickia coronata Brandt, 1968
- Hubendickia crooki Brandt, 1968
- Hubendickia cylindrica Brandt, 1974
- Hubendickia gochenouri Brandt, 1968
- Hubendickia pellucida (Bavay, 1895) - synonyms: Pachydrobia pellucida Bavay, 1895; Manningiella pellucida Brandt, 1970
- Hubendickia polita (Brandt, 1970) - synonym: Manningiella polita Brandt, 1970
- Hubendickia rolfbrandti Temcharoen, 1971
- Hubendickia schlickumi (Brandt, 1968) - synonym: Paraprososthenia schlickumi Brandt, 1968
- Hubendickia scheutti (Brandt, 1968) - synonym: Paraprososthenia scheutti Brandt, 1968
- Hubendickia spiralis Brandt, 1968
- Hubendickia sulcata (Bavay, 1895) - synonyms: Pachydrobia sulcata Bavay, 1895; Hubendickia siamensis Brandt, 1968 - type species
- Hubendickia tuberculata Brandt, 1968
- Hubendickia new species from Mekong River, Thailand
- Hubendickia another new species from Mekong River, Thailand