Mercuria
Shell of Mercuria bourguignati (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Mercuriinae
Boeters & Falkner, 2017
Genus: Mercuria
Boeters, 1971[1]
Type species
Amnicola confusa
Frauenfeld, 1863
Synonyms[2]
  • Anatiniana Fagot, 1892 (invalid: junior homonym of Anatiniana Bourguignat, 1881 [Unionidae])
  • Cyrniacana Fagot, 1892 (declared nomen oblitum vs Mercuria nomen protectum)
  • Similiana Fagot, 1892 (invalid: junior homonym of Similiana Fagot, 1891 [Chondrinidae])

Mercuria is a genus of small brackish water snails or freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Mercuria include:[4]

  • Mercuria anatina (Poiret, 1801)
  • Mercuria atlasica Mabrouki, Glöer & Taybi, 2021
  • Mercuria baccinelliana Esu & Girotti, 2015
  • Mercuria bakeri Glöer, Boeters & Walther, 2015
  • Mercuria balearica (Paladilhe, 1869)
  • Mercuria baudoniana (Gassies, 1859)
  • Mercuria bayonnensis (Locard, 1894)
  • Mercuria boetersi Schlickum & Strauch, 1979
  • Mercuria bourguignati Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010[5]
  • Mercuria corsensis Boeters & Falkner, 2017
  • Mercuria gauthieri Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010[5]
  • Mercuria glaberrima (O. Boettger, 1875)
  • Mercuria globulina (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)
  • Mercuria helicella (F. Sandberger, 1858)
  • Mercuria letourneuxiana (Bourguignat, 1862) [6]
  • Mercuria maceana (Paladilhe, 1869)
  • Mercuria melitensis (Paladilhe, 1869)
  • Mercuria meridionalis (Risso, 1826)
  • Mercuria midarensis Boulaassafer, Ghamizi & Delicado, 2018
  • Mercuria punica (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)
  • Mercuria pycnocheilia (Bourguignat, 1862)
  • Mercuria rolani Glöer, Boeters & Walther, 2015
  • Mercuria saharica (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)
  • Mercuria sarahae (Paladilhe, 1869)
  • Mercuria similis (Draparnaud, 1805) [7]
  • Mercuria tachoensis (Frauenfeld, 1865)
  • Mercuria tensiftensis Boulaassafer, Ghamizi & Delicado, 2018
  • Mercuria tingitana Glöer, Boeters & Walther, 2015
  • Mercuria vanparysi Marquet et al., 2008
  • Mercuria zopissa (Paulucci, 1882)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Mercuria confusa (Frauenfeld, 1863):[8] synonym of Mercuria similis (Draparnaud, 1805)
  • Mercuria edmundi Boeters, 1986: synonym of Mercuria tachoensis (Frauenfeld, 1865) (junior synonym)
  • Mercuria emiliana (Paladilhe, 1869): synonym of Pseudamnicola emilianus (Paladilhe, 1869) [9]
  • Mercuria perforata (Bourguignat, 1862) : synonym of Pseudamnicola dupotetiana (Forbes, 1838)
  • Mercuria vindilica (Paladilhe, 1870): synonym of Mercuria sarahae vindilica (Paladilhe, 1870)

References

  1. Boeters, H. D. (1971). Pseudamnicola Paulucci, 1878 und Mercuria n. gen. (Prosobranchia, Hydrobiidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 101: 177.
  2. "Mercuria". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  3. Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  4. "Taxon Details: Mercuria Boeters 1971". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on July 27, 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  5. 1 2 Glöer P., Bouzid S. & Boeters H. D. (2010). "Revision of the genera Pseudamnicola Paulucci 1878 and Mercuria Boeters 1971 from Algeria with particular emphasis on museum collections (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 1-22. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/001-022.
  6. Van Damme, D. & Ghamizi, M. 2010. Mercuria letourneuxiana (Bourguignat, 1862). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T184749A8326304.en
  7. Chlyeh G., Dodet M., Delay B., Khallaayoune K. & Jarne P. (2006). "Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Freshwater Snail Species in Relation to Migration and Environmental Factors in an Irrigated Area from Morocco". Hydrobiologia 553(1): 129-142. doi:10.1007/s10750-005-0968-9.
  8. Gofas, S. (2022). "Mercuria confusa". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  9. "Mercuria emiliana". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

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