Mysorelloides

Mysorelloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Paludomidae
Subfamily: Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe: Tiphobiini
Genus: Mysorelloides
Leloup, 1953[2]
Species:
M. multisulcata
Binomial name
Mysorelloides multisulcata
(Bourguignat, 1888)

Mysorelloides multisulcata is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.[3]

Mysorelloides multisulcata is the only species in the genus Mysorelloides.[4]

It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.[1] Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.

References

  1. ^ a b Ngereza, C.; Nicayenzi, F. (2010). "Mysorelloides multisulcata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010 e.T14259A4427339. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T14259A4427339.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ Leloup E. (1953). Exploration hydrobiologique du Lac Tanganika (1946–1947). Volume 3, Fascicule 4, Gastéropodes. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 273 pp. page 87.
  3. ^ Strong E. E. & Glaubrecht M. (2010). "Anatomy of the Tiphobiini from Lake Tanganyika (Cerithioidea, Paludomidae)". Malacologia 52(1): 115-153. doi:10.4002/040.052.0108.
  4. ^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.