Benedictia maxima

Benedictia maxima is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae.

Benedictia maxima
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily:
Benedictiinae
Genus:
Benedictia
Species:
Benedictia maxima

Dybowski, 1875[2]
Synonyms

Hydrobia maxima W. Dybowski, 1875

Subspecies
  • Benedictia maxima maxima (W. Dybowski, 1875)[3]
  • Benedictia maxima marisminus Sitnikova, 1987[3][4]

Distribution

Benedictia maxima maxima lives in the southern and central parts of Lake Baikal, Siberia, in depths from 40 to 260 m.[3] The type locality for Benedictia maxima maxima is Kultuk, in southern Baikal.[3]

Benedictia maxima marisminus lives in the northern part of Lake Baikal, in depths from 20 to 220 m.[3] The type locality for Benedictia maxima marisminus is Maloe More, in northern Baikal.[3]

References
  1. IUCN (2013). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 May 2014.
  2. Dybowski W. (1875). "Die Gastropoden-Fauna des Baikal-Sees, anatomisch und systematisch bearbeitet". Mémories de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.Pétersbourg (7)22(8), 73 pp., page 27, plate 1, fig. 24.
  3. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1.
  4. (in Russian) Sitnikova T. Ya. [Ситникова Т.Я.] (1987). "К систематике байкальских эндемичных моллюсков семейства Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) [To the systematics of baikalian endemic molluscs of the family Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia)]". Зоологический журнал Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 66(10): 1463–1476. page 1474, fig. 3-4.


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