Isidorella

Isidorella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Isidorella
Tate, 1896[1]

Isidorella is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails.

All species within family Planorbidae have sinistral shells.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to Australia.[2]

Species

Species within this genus include:

Walker (1988) considered all examined specimen from Australia from this genus as Isidorella newcombi sensu lato.[2]

Ecology

Isidorella snails are grazers-scrapers.[3]

References

  1. Tate R. (1896). Mollusca. pp. 181-226. In: Spencer W. B. (ed.). Report on the Work of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia, Pt 2 Zoology, 212. London & Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade. (also in volume 1: page 22 and 65.)
  2. 1 2 3 Walker J. C. (1988). "Classification of Australian buliniform planorbids (Mollusca: Pulmonata)". Records of the Australian Museum 40: 61-89. PDF. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.151
  3. Wahizatul A. A. & Jennings J. T. (2011). "Impact of Exotic Willow Roots (Salix spp.) as Habitat for Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in South Australian Stream". Asian Journal of Biological Sciences 4(5): 428-444. doi:10.3923/ajbs.2011.428.444.


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