| Fukuia ooyagii | |
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| A live individual of Fukuia ooyagii viewed from the anterior end | |
| 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. ooyagii |
| Binomial name | |
| Fukuia ooyagii Minato, 1982 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Fukuia kurodai ooyagii Minato, 1982 | |
Fukuia ooyagii is a species of freshwater snail which has an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Taxonomy
According to the molecular analyses of 18S ribosomal RNA, 28S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA, and cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes by Kameda & Kato (2011) Fukuia ooyagii should be separated from Fukuia, and its generic assignment should be determined coupled with the investigation of its soft-part morphology. The most closely related genus is Blanfordia.
Distribution
This species is endemic to the northern part of Honshu, Japan.
Ecology
This species is freshwater snail living in mountain streamlets.
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from the reference
- ^ 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.