Fontigens

Fontigens
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Fontigentidae
Genus:
Pilsbry, 1933
Type species
Paludina nickliniana I. Lea, 1838

Fontigens is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Fontigentidae . [1]

Species

Species within the genus Fontigens include:[2]

  • Fontigens aldrichi (Call & Beecher, 1886)
  • Fontigens antroecetes (Hubricht, 1940)
  • Fontigens binneyana Hannibal, 1912
  • Fontigens bottimeri (B.Walker, 1925)
  • Fontigens cryptica Hubricht, 1963
  • Fontigens davisi Dillon, Malabad, Orndorff & H-P. Liu, 2023
  • Fontigens hershleri Dillon, Malabad, Orndorff & H-P. Liu, 2023
  • Fontigens morrisoni Hershler, Holsinger & Hubricht, 1990
  • Fontigens nickliniana (I.Lea, 1838)
  • Fontigens orolibas Hubricht, 1957
  • Fontigens palaea Pilsbry, 1953
  • Fontigens proserpina (Hubricht, 1940)
  • Fontigens symmetrica Pilsbry, 1953
  • Fontigens tartarea Hubricht, 1963
  • Fontigens turritella Hubricht, 1976 - Greenbrier cavesnail
Synonyms
  • Fontigens holsingeri Hubricht, 1976 - Tapered cavesnail: synonym of Fontigens tartarea Hubricht, 1963 (junior subjective synonym)
  • Fontigens oxybeles Pilsbry, 1950: synonym of Tryonia aequicostata (Pilsbry, 1890) (junior subjective synonym)
  • Fontigens weberi Pilsbry, 1950: synonym of Tryonia aequicostata (Pilsbry, 1890) (junior subjective synonym)

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Fontigens Pilsbry, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057294 on 2025-01-22
  2. ^ "Fontigens Pilsbry, 1933". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 October 2021.