Theodoxus jordani

Theodoxus jordani is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Theodoxus jordani
Theodoxus jordani shells

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Neritimorpha
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily:
Neritoidea
Family:
Neritidae
Subfamily:
Neritininae
Tribe:
Theodoxini
Genus:
Theodoxus
Subgenus:
Neritaea
Species:
T. jordani
Binomial name
Theodoxus jordani
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1836)[note 1]

Distribution

This species occurs in:

The type locality is the Jordan Basin.[1]

Shells of this species were also found in Üçağızlı Cave in Turkey, in Upper Paleolithic deposits which probably originated from the Orontes River.[4]

Parasites

Parasites of Theodoxus jordani include two types of trematodes.[2]

Predators

Predators of Theodoxus jordani include:

  • fishes Barbus longiceps, Blennius fluviatilis[5]
  • crab Potamon potamon[5]

Footnotes
  1. Various years of description are referred: 1832, 1836, 1844.

References
  1. Van Damme D. (2014). "Theodoxus jordani". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 March 2015.
  2. Abdel-Hafez S. K. & Ismail N. S. (1983). "Larval stages of digenetic trematodes of Theodoxus jordani (Sowerby 1836) snails from Yarmouk River, Jordan". Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 69(6): 789-796. doi:10.1007/BF00927428.
  3. Amr Z. S & Abu Baker M. (2004). "Freshwater snails of Jordan". 'Denisia 14: 221-227. PDF.
  4. Kuhn S. L., Stiner M. C., Reese D. S. & Güleç E. (2001). "Ornaments of the earliest Upper Paleolithic: New insights from the Levant". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98(13): 7641–7646. doi:10.1073/pnas.121590798.
  5. Heller J. (1979). "Visual versus non-visual selection of shell colour in an Israeli freshwater snail". Oecologia 44(1): 98-104. doi:10.1007/BF00346406.
  • Al-Dabbagh K. Y., Khalid Y. & Luka J. Y. (1986). "Population dynamics of the gastropod Theodoxus jordani (Sowerby) in the Shatt Al-Arab River". Freshwater Biology 16: 443–448. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.1986.tb00986.x.
  • Alouf N. J. (1998). "Distribution of Theodoxus jordani (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Lebanon: biogeographic aspects". Vie Milieu 48: 133–138.
  • Al-Dabbagh K. Y. & Luka J. Y. (1986). "Respiration studies and population metabolism of the gastropod Theodoxus jordani (Sowerby)". Freshwater Biology 16(4): 449–453.
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