Cipangopaludina miyagii

Cipangopaludina miyagii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Cipangopaludina
Species:
C. miyagii
Binomial name
Cipangopaludina miyagii
Kuroda, 1941[1]

Cipangopaludina miyagii is a species of large, freshwater snail with an operculum and a gill, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails. This freshwater snail found only in Southern part of Taiwan.[2][3]

Taxonomy

This species was described by Tokubei Kuroda, the famous Japanese malacologist expertised in malacology fauna of Taiwan during its occupation by Japan, in 1941.[1] The freshwater snail is classified as a species of the genus Cipangopaludina, and was named after Mr. Miyagi, the one who caught the snail.[4] The sample was caught in Takao Prefecture,[4] which corresponds to the area of modern-day Kaohsiung City and Pingtung County. The current distribution of the species reflects that it exists in water near grassland of both area.[2][5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b Kuroda, Tokubei (1941). "A Catalogue of Molluscan Shells from Taiwan (Formosa), with Description of new Species". Taibei Imperial University. pp. 65–216. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  2. ^ a b "Shell base: Cipangopaludina miyagii". The Taiwan Malacofauna Database (in Traditional Chinese and English). Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  3. ^ "Cipangopaludina miyagii Kuroda, 1941". TaiBNET. Taiwan: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia_Sinica.
  4. ^ a b "稜田螺" (in Traditional Chinese). 典藏台灣. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  5. ^ Chao, David; Wu, C. L.; Cheng, C. C. (1999). 東港鎮陸域軟體動物相 [Land and Freshwater Mollusks in Tungkang, Pingtung, Taiwan]. Bulletin of Malacology, Taiwan ROC (in Traditional Chinese and English). 23. The Malacological Society of Taiwan: 55–60. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  6. ^ Pace, Gary L. (1973). "The Freshwater Snails in Taiwan (Formosa)". Malacological Review. Supplement 1. Whitmore Lake, MI(United States): LSA Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan: 1–118. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  • The National Checklist of Taiwan (Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, TaiCoL)


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