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Stenothyridae
	A drawing of an apertural view of Stenothyra hybocystoides, with operculum in place
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Stenothyridae; Tryon, 1866
Diversity
	About 60 freshwater species

Stenothyridae is a family of small freshwater snails, snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.^[3]

This family has no subfamilies.^[3]

Distribution

There are known about 60 freshwater species of Stenothyridae in the Palearctic (6 species), Oriental (about 60 species) and Australasian region (about 5 species)^[2] and some marine. There are 19 endemic species of Stenothyridae in the Lower Mekong River flowing through Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.^[2]

Description

American malacologist George Washington Tryon firstly defined this taxon as Stenothyrinæ in 1866.^[1] Tryon's diagnosis reads as follows:^[1]

Stenothyrinæ. Shell turbinate. Operculum subspiral, calcareous. Distribution Indian. Stenothyra, Gabbia.

Currently the genus Gabbia is classified within the family Bithyniidae.

Genera

Genera within the family Stenothyridae include:

Farsithyra Glöer & Pešić, 2009^[4]
Gangetia Ancey, 1890^[5]
Stenothyra Benson, 1856 - type genus of the family Stenothyridae^[3]

Ecology

The habitat of Stenothyridae include rivers, streams and estuaries.^[2] Stenothyridae invaded freshwater habitats from marine ones in at least one independent lineage.^[2] Some species of Stenothyridae are euryhaline and/or marine.^[2] Probably there are some amphidromous (migrate from freshwater to the sea) species of Stenothyridae.^[2]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Tryon G. W. (1866). "[Book review of] Researches upon the Hydrobiinae and allied forms by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, 8 vol. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, August 1865. 58 pp". American Journal of Conchology 2(2): 152-158. page 155.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
^ ^a ^b ^c Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
^ Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2009). "New freshwater gastropod species of the Iran (Gastropoda: Stenothyridae, Bithyniidae, Hydrobiidae)". Mollusca 27(1): 33-39.
^ "Stenothyridae". The Taxonomicon, last update 21 March 2011, accessed 23 July 2011.

External links

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[Tryon_1866-1] Tryon G. W. (1866). "[Book review of] Researches upon the Hydrobiinae and allied forms by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, 8 vol. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, August 1865. 58 pp". American Journal of Conchology 2(2): 152-158. page 155.

[Strong_2008-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.

[Bouchet_2005-3] Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.

[4] Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2009). "New freshwater gastropod species of the Iran (Gastropoda: Stenothyridae, Bithyniidae, Hydrobiidae)". Mollusca 27(1): 33-39.

[5] "Stenothyridae". The Taxonomicon, last update 21 March 2011, accessed 23 July 2011.

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