Doryssa

Doryssa is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.

Doryssa
Two shells of Doryssa consolidata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Pachychilidae
Genus:
Doryssa

Distribution

These freshwater snails are endemic to South America.

Species

Species within the genus Doryssa include:

  • Doryssa atra (Bruguière, 1792)[1]
  • Doryssa brevior (Troschel, 1848) - type species of the genus Doryssa[2]
  • Doryssa consolidata (Bruguière, 1790)[1]
  • Doryssa derivans Brot, 1874
  • Doryssa geijskesi (Pain, 1956)
  • Doryssa gruneri (Jonas, 1844)[1]
  • Doryssa hohenackeri (Philippi, 1851)[2]
  • Doryssa kappleri (Vernhout, 1914)[3]
  • Doryssa lamarckiana (Brot, 1870)[1]
  • Doryssa petechialis (Brot, 1860)
  • Doryssa schuppi (Ihering, 1902)
  • Doryssa transversa (Lea, 1850)

References
  1. Baker H. B. (1930). "The Mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela". Occasional Paper of Museum of zoology 210: 1–95. PDF
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Doryssa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=848311 on 2015-10-09
  3. Abbott R. T. (1955). "Anatomy of the Venezuelan gastropod, Doryssa kappleri". The Nautilus 69: 44–46, plate.
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