Sibirenauta

Sibirenauta is a genus of left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.

Sibirenauta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Planorboidea
Family:
Physidae
Subfamily:
Aplexinae
Tribe:
Aplexini
Genus:
Sibirenauta

Starobogatov & Streletzkaja, 1967[1]
Diversity[2]
4 species

The scientific name Sibirenauta is composed from the word Siberia, where its species live and from the Latin word nauta, that means "sailor".[2]

Distribution

Distribution the genus Sibirenauta ranges from Siberia to Canada and the United States of America.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Sibirenauta include:

  • Sibirenauta depressior (Middendorff, 1851) - type species[2]
  • Sibirenauta elongatus (Say, 1821)[2]
  • Sibirenauta pictus (Krause, 1883)[2]
  • Sibirenauta sibiricus (Westerlund, 1877)[2]
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References
  1. Starobogatov Y. I. & Streletskaja E. A. (1967). Sostav i zoogeograficheskaya kharakteristika presnovodnoi malakofauny vostochnoi Sibiri i severa dal’nego vostoka. Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 42: 221-268.
  2. Taylor D. W. (2003). "Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila). Biology, classification, morphology". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 1): 1-299. (1-195, 197-263, 265-287). pages 10-11, 56-71.
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