Cincinnatia

Cincinnatia is a genus of very small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails.

Cincinnatia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Truncatelloidea
Family:
Hydrobiidae
Genus:
Cincinnatia

Species

The genus Cincinnatia is currently monospecific, containing the single species Cincinnatia integra (Say, 1821).[2][3]

Species brought into synonymy

In 2002, 15 out of the then 16 species of Cincinnatia were transferred to the genera Marstonia and Floridobia:[2]

  • Cincinnatia alexander Thompson, 2000: synonym of Floridobia alexander (Thompson, 2000)
  • Cincinnatia comalensis (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1906): synonym of Marstonia comalensis (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1906)
  • Cincinnatia floridana (Frauenfeld, 1863): synonym of Floridobia floridana (Frauenfeld, 1863)
  • Cincinnatia fraterna Thompson, 1968: synonym of Floridobia fraterna (Thompson, 1968)
  • Cincinnatia helicogyra Thompson, 1968: synonym of Floridobia helicogyra (Thompson, 1968)
  • Cincinnatia leptospira Thompson, 2000: synonym of Floridobia leptospira (Thompson, 2000)
  • Cincinnatia mica Thompson, 1968: synonym of Floridobia mica (Thompson, 1968)
  • Cincinnatia monroensis (Dall, 1885): synonym of Floridobia monroensis (Dall, 1885)
  • Cincinnatia parva Thompson, 1968: synonym of Floridobia parva (Thompson, 1968)
  • Cincinnatia petrifons Thompson, 1968: synonym of Floridobia petrifons (Thompson, 1968)
  • Cincinnatia ponderosa Thompson, 1968: synonym of Floridobia ponderosa (Thompson, 1968)
  • Cincinnatia porteri Thompson, 2000: synonym of Floridobia porteri (Thompson, 2000)
  • Cincinnatia vanhyningi (Vanatta, 1934): synonym of Floridobia vanhyningi (Vanatta, 1934)
  • Cincinnatia wekiwae Thompson, 1968: synonym of Floridobia wekiwae (Thompson, 1968)
  • Cincinnatia winkleyi (Pilsbry, 1912): synonym of Floridobia winkleyi (Pilsbry, 1912)

References
  1. Pilsbry H. A. (1891). Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1891: 327.
  2. Thompson F. G.; Hershler R. (2002). "Two genera of North American freshwater snails: Marstonia Baker, 1926, resurrected to generic status, and Floridobia, new genus (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae: Nymphophilinae)". The Veliger. 45 (3): 269–271. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  3. Hershler, R.; Liu, H.-P. & Thompson, F. G. (2003). "Phylogenetic relationships of North American nymphophiline gastropods based on mitochondrial DNA sequences" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. 32 (4): 357–366. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00115.x. Retrieved 5 August 2014.


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