Biology:Ferrissia californica
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Ferrissia californica | |
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| Ferrissia californica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Genus: | Ferrissia |
| Species: | F. californica
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| Ferrissia californica (Rowell, 1863)
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Ferrissia californica is a species of small freshwater limpet, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae.[2]
Description
This species has a limpet like shell. In captivity the shell is clear but in the wild it is light to dark brown.[3]
Distribution
This species originates from North America. It is introduced in several countries and islands including:
- Czech Republic[4]
- Bulgaria[5]
- Austria
- Spain
- Moldova[6]
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Great Britain
- Portugal[7]
- Algeria[8]
- Japan
- Australia
- and others
Habitat
Ferrissia californica lives in streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, etc. It can be found on rocks, wood debris, aquatic plants, and dead leaves.[9]
Diet
Ferrissia californica eats mostly diatoms.[10]
Life cycle
Ferrissia californica is a obligate self-fertilizer. It lays eggs that are 0.6 mm and contain one juvenile. The eggs hatch in about seven days. They mature at between four and five weeks. Adults are about 2 mm.[11]
Human use
Ferrissia californica is found in the aquarium trade and is considered an aquarium pest.[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cordeiro, J.; Perez, K. (2011). "Ferrissia fragilis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T189119A8686887. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189119A8686887.en. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/189119/0. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ferrissia californica (Rowell, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1001489 on 2021-02-09
- ↑ "Just One Species of Ferrissia". https://www.fwgna.org/archive/10Jun09.html.
- ↑ Beran L. & Horsák M. (2007). "Distribution of the alien freshwater snail Ferrissia fragilis (Tryon, 1863) (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in the Czech Republic". Aquatic Invasions 2(1): 45–54.
- ↑ Dilian Georgiev & Zdravko Hubenov (2013). "Freshwater snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Bulgaria: an updated annotated checklist". Folia Malacologica 21(4): 237-263. DOI:10.12657/folmal.021.026
- ↑ Igor A. Balashov, Mikhail O. Son, Viorica Coadã & Francisco Welter-Schultes (2013). "An updated annotated checklist of the molluscs of the Republic of Moldova". Folia Malacologica 21(3): 175-181.
- ↑ Holyoak, D.T.; Holyoak, G.A.; Mendes, R. (2019). "A revised check-list of the land and freshwater Mollusca (Gastropoda and Bivalvia) of mainland Portugal". Iberus 37 (1): 113–168.
- ↑ Ramdini Ramdane, Dirk Van Damme, Sadouk Ghania & Medjdoub-Bensaad Ferroudja (2020). "Rediscovery of Armiger crista (Linnaeus, 1857) (Gastropoda Planorbidae) in Algeria". Biodiversity Journal 11(4): 821–824.
- ↑ "Species Account : Ferrissia fragilis". https://www.fwgna.org/species/ancylidae/f_fragilis.html.
- ↑ Blinn, W.; Truitt, Robt. E.; Pickart, Anne (1989). "Feeding Ecology and Radular Morphology of the Freshwater Limpet Ferrissia fragilis". Journal of the North American Benthological Society 8 (3): 237–242. doi:10.2307/1467327.
- ↑ "Genetics, Shell Morphology, and Life History of the Freshwater Pulmonate Limpets Ferrissia rivularis and Ferrissia fragilis". https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233209979.
- ↑ "Algae and Other Pests". https://www.fishwise.co.nz/view-article/13-algae-and-other-pests.
Wikidata ☰ Q3076235 entry
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