Fukuia kurodai
| Fukuia kurodai | |
|---|---|
| A pair of Fukuia kurodai kurodai mating above the water line | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Genus: | Fukuia |
| Species: | F. kurodai
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| Binomial name | |
| Fukuia kurodai Abbott & Hunter, 1949
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Fukuia kurodai is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[1]
Fukuia kurodai is the type species of the genus Fukuia.
Subspecies
There are two[1] subspecies of Fukuia kurodai:
Distribution
This species is endemic to Honshu, Japan.[1]
Ecology
This species is a freshwater snail which lives in mountain streamlets.[1] It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g 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.