Sibirenauta sibirica
Sibirenauta sibirica is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae, a family which are sometimes known as the bladder snails.
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| Subfamily: | Aplexinae |
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| Species: | S. sibirica |
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| Sibirenauta sibirica (Westerlund, 1877)[1] | |
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Taxonomy edit
Swedish malacologist Carl Agardh Westerlund discovered and described this species under the name Physa sibirica in 1877.[1][2] Starobogatov et al. moved this species to the genus Sibirenauta in 1989.[2] Vinarski and colleagues designated the lectotype for Sibirenauta sibirica in 2013 and the lectotype is stored in the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.[2] The generic name Sibirenauta is feminine (according to original description), the correct species name should be Sibirenauta sibirica instead of S. sibiricus as it was cited by several authors.[3]
Distribution edit
Distribution of Sibirenauta sibirica include northern Asia and Alaska.[2] It occurs in Arctic Asia, Subarctic Asia and in the south of Eastern Siberia.[2]
This species occurs in:
- Wrangel Island, Russia.[4] No mollusc species were found on Wrangel Island up to 2015.[4]
The type locality is Yenisei River, Sopotchnaya Korga, 71°40’N in Taymyr Peninsula.[1][2]
Description edit
The external and internal morphology is described and depicted for example by Vinarski et al. 2015.[3][4]
The height of the shell is up to 13 mm, usually 10-12 [3] The shell has 6 whorls.[1]
Dimensions of the lectotype are as follows: The width of the shell is 4.7 mm.[2] The height of the shell is 8.8 mm.[2] The shell has 4.75 whorls.[2]
Ecology edit
For example, there was pH 8.2 and 84 ppm NaCl on the lake locality in the Wrangel Island.[4]
References edit
- ^ a b c d (in Swedish) Westerlund C. A. (1877). "Sibiriens Land- och Sötvatten-Mollusker. I." Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 14(2): 55-56. 101 pp.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Vinarski M. V., Nekhaev I. O., Glöer P. & von Proschwitz T. (2013). "Type materials of freshwater gastropod species described by C.A. Westerlund and accepted in current malacological taxonomy: a taxonomic and nomenclatorial study". Ruthenica 23: 79–108.
- ^ a b c Nekhaev I. O. (2015). "Surviving at the edge of land: finding of the limnetic snail Sibirenauta sibirica (Gastropoda: Physidae) on the coast of the Laptev Sea (Eastern Siberia)". Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 19: 25-30.
- ^ a b c d Vinarski M. V., Palatov D. M. & Novichkova A. (2015). "The first freshwater molluscs from Wrangel Island, Arctic Russia". Polar Research 34: 23889. doi:10.3402/polar.v34.23889
External links edit
Taylor D. W. (2003). "Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila). Biology, classification, morphology". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 1): 1-299. (1-195, 197-263, 265-287). page 71.