Thiara (gastropod)
Encyclopedia
Thiara is a genus
of freshwater snail
s, aquatic
gastropod mollusks in the family
Thiaridae
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According to the website Shell-bearing Mollusca, the following species are included within the genus Thiara
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, 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
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Thiaridae
Thiaridae
Thiaridae, common name thiarids, is a family of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea....
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Species
Species with accepted names within the genus Thiara include:- Thiara rodericensisThiara rodericensisThiara rodericensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae....
(Smith, 1876)
According to the website Shell-bearing Mollusca, the following species are included within the genus Thiara
- Thiara amarula C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Africa, Australia, India
- Thiara baldwini C. F. Ancey, 1899 - Hawaiian Islands
- Thiara balonnensis T. A. Conrad, 1850 - Australia
- Thiara cancellata P. F. Röding, 1798 - Indo-Pacific
- Thiara indefinita I. & H. C. Lea, 1851 - Hawaiian Islands
- Thiara kauaiensis W. H. Pease, 1870 - Hawaiian Islands
- Thiara lineata Gray, 1828 - India
- Thiara lirata C. T. Menke, 1843 - Australia
- Thiara paludomoidea Nevill, 1884 - India
- Thiara prashadi Ray, 1947 - India
- Thiara punctata J. B. Lamarck, 1822 - India
- Thiara rudis I. Lea, 1850 - India
- Thiara scabra O. F. Müller, 1774 - Indo-Pacific
- Thiara scabra lyriformis I. Lea, 1850 - Japan
- Thiara scabra pagoda I. Lea, 1850 - Japan
- Thiara scabra subplicatula Smith, 1878 - Japan
- Thiara speciosa A. Adams, 1854
- Thiara torulosa Bruguière, 1789 I- ndia
- Thiara verrauiana I. Lea, 1856 - Hawaiian Islands
- Thiara winteri von Dem Busch, 1842 - Indo-Pacific : spiky trumpet snail