Semisulcospira decipiens

Semisulcospira decipiens is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae.

Semisulcospira decipiens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Semisulcospiridae
Genus:
Semisulcospira
Species:
S. decipiens
Binomial name
Semisulcospira decipiens
Synonyms

Melania niponica var. decipiens Westerlund, 1883

Taxonomy

Type specimen were collected during the Vega Expedition led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1878–1880.[2] This species was originally described under the name Melania niponica var. decipiens by Swedish malacologist Carl Agardh Westerlund in 1883.[2]

Semisulcospira decipiens belong to the Semisulcospira niponica species group.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Lake Biwa and in the Yodo River, Japan.[1]

The type locality is the lake Biwa.[2]

References
  1. Köhler F. & Rintelen T. (2011). "Semisulcospira decipiens". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011. Version e.T189228A8704130. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 November 2015.
  2. (in German) Westerlund C. A. (1883). "Von der Vega-expedition in Asien gesammelte Binnen mollusken". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 15(3–4): 48–59.
  3. Davis G. M. (1969). "A taxonomic study of some species of Semisulcospira in Japan (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae)". Malacologia 7: 211-294.


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