Emmericia

Emmericia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Amnicolidae
Genus: Emmericia
Brusina, 1870[1]
Species

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Emmericia is a genus of very small freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Amnicolidae, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Emmericia is the type genus of the subfamily Emmericiinae.

Species

Species in the genus Emmericia include:[2]

  • Emmericia narentana Bourguignat, 1880
  • Emmericia patula (Brumati, 1838) - type species

References

  1. ^ Brusina S. (1870). "Monographie der Gattungen Emmericia und Fossarulus". Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 20: 925-938.
  2. ^ [1]. AnimalBase, accessed 5 April 2009.

Further reading