Biology:Mekongia
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Short description: Genus of molluscs
| Mekongia | |
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| Shell of Mekongia franzhuberi (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Viviparoidea |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Subfamily: | Bellamyinae |
| Genus: | Mekongia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1876[1] |
| Type species | |
| Paludina jullieni Deshayes, 1876 | |
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Mekongia is a genus of Viviparidae, a gastropoda mollusca in the subfamily Bellamyinae of the family Viviparidae.[1]
The name of this genus comes from the Mekongia river of Indochina peninsula.
Species
(As of April 2022), WoRMS recorded the following species under Mekongia[1]:
- Mekongia crassa (Benson, 1836)
- Mekongia franzhuberi Thach, 2021
- Mekongia jullieni (Deshayes, 1876)
- Mekongia lamarcki (Deshayes, 1876)
- Mekongia liuiana (Yen, 1937)
- Mekongia pongensis Brandt, 1968
- Mekongia rattei (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1876)
- Mekongia siamensis (Frauenfeld, 1865)
- Mekongia smithi (Yen, 1942)
- Mekongia sphaericula (Deshayes, 1876)
- Mekongia swainsoniana (I. Lea, 1856)
- taxon inquirendum
- Mekongia bocourti (Mabille, 1889)
- Mekangia rivularia[2]: possibly the synonym of Rivularia bicarinata, according to comment of referenced text.
- Mekongia turbinata (Deshayes, 1876)
- synonyms
- Mekongia eyriesi (Morelet, 1865): synonym of Eyriesia eyriesi (Morelet, 1865) (superseded combination)
- Mekangia hunanensis Yen, 1942, named after the Hunan province of China, is now: synonym of Mekongia liuiana (Yen, 1937), a species of the same genus discovered by the same author earlier;
- Mekongia moreleti (Deshayes, 1876): synonym of Mekongia siamensis (Frauenfeld, 1865) (a junior synonym)
- Mekongia swainsoni (I. Lea, 1856): synonym of Mekongia swainsoniana (I. Lea, 1856) (incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Mekongia yunnanensis[3]: named after the Yunnan province of China.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Mekongia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1876". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=827277.
- ↑ Template:Guokr
- ↑ Lu, H.-F.; Du, L.-N.; Li, Z.-Q.; Chen, X.-Y.; Yang, J.-X. (2014). "Morphological analysis of the Chinese Cipangopaludina species (Gastropoda; Caenogastropoda; Viviparidae)". Zoological Research (English Edition) 35 (6): 510–527. doi:10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2014.6.510. PMID 25465086. PMC 4790280. https://doi.org/10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2014.6.510.
- Brandt, R. A. M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i-iv, 1-423
- Thach N.N. , 2021 New shells of South Asia and Taiwan, China, Tanzania. Seashells*Freshwater*Land snails. With 116 new species and subspecies and rejected synonyms, accepted species, p. 202 pp
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q26722462 entry
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