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Fukuia multistriata

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Species of gastropod

Fukuia multistriata
Live individual of Fukuia multistriata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily: Pomatiopsinae
Genus: Fukuia
Species: F. multistriata
Binomial name
Fukuia multistriata
Abbott & Hunter, 1949
Synonyms

Fukuia kurodai multistriata Abbott & Hunter, 1949

Fukuia multistriata is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Honshu, Japan.

An individual of Fukuia multistriata resting on a tree branch.
The habitat of the amphibious species Fukuia multistriata is beside the waterfall.

Ecology

This species is a freshwater snail that lives in mountain streamlets. It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal.

References

  1. ^ Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.


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