Glyptophysa

Glyptophysa is a genus of medium-sized sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family of Planorbidae.[4]

Glyptophysa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Planorboidea
Family:
Planorbidae
Subfamily:
Bulininae[1]
sensu Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005
or
"B-clade" sensu Albrecht et al. (2007)[2]
Genus:
Glyptophysa

Crosse, 1872[3]
Type species
Physa petiti Crosse, 1872
Synonyms
  • Glyptamoda Iredale, 1943
  • Lenameria Iredale, 1943
  • Mutalena Iredale, 1944
  • Physastra Tapparone Canefri, 1883
  • Tasmadora Iredale, 1943

Description

Shells are medium sized, smooth and globose to elongate. Shells of Glyptophysa are always sinistral. "Members of the genus possess a twist or fold on the columella, a feature lacking in Isidorella and Physella. Whorls round or carinate."[5]

Distribution

Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Moluccas, Philippines, Sumatra, islands of South Pacific east to Tahiti, and Malaysia (introduced).[5]

Habitat and ecology

Often found on water weeds, submerged wood, rocks, gravel and sand in ponds, billabongs, swamps, and sluggish streams and rivers(both still and flowing). Occasionally on mud. "Feeds on algae and detritus."[5] Glyptophysa snails are grazers-scrapers.

Species

Species in this genus include:

  • Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) aliciae Reeve, 1862[6][7]
  • Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) - King George’s Freshwater Snail[8][9]
  • Glyptophysa (Oppletora) jukesii (H.Adams, 1861)[10][11]
  • Glyptophysa multistrigata (Cooke, 1889) - tentatively placed here
  • Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) novaehollandica (Bowdich, 1822)[12][13]
    • Glyptophysa gibbosa (Gould, 1846)[9] (now treated as a synonym of G. novaehollandica)[13]
    • Glyptophysa badia (Adams and Angas, 1864) (now treated as a synonym of G. novaehollandica)[13]
  • Glyptophysa oconnori Cumber, 1941[9]
  • Glyptophysa petiti (Crosse 1872) - type species[1]
  • Glyptophysa proteus (Sowerby, 1873) - tentatively placed here
  • Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) vandiemenensis (Sowerby, 1873)[14][15]
  • Glyptophysa variabilis (Gray, 1843)[16]

References
  1. Walker J. C. (1988). "Classification of Australian buliniform planorbids (Mollusca: Pulmonata)". Records of the Australian Museum 40: 61-89. PDF. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.151
  2. Albrecht C., Kuhn K. & Streit B. (2007). "A molecular phylogeny of Planorboidea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): insights from enhanced taxon sampling". Zoologica Scripta 36: 27-39.doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00258.x.
  3. Crosse J. C. H. (1872). J. Conchyliol. 20: 151.
  4. Bouchet, P.; Marshall, B. (2017). Glyptophysa Crosse, 1872. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818281 on 2018-01-20
  5. "Glyptophysa - fact sheet". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  6. Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) aliciae
  7. "Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) aliciae - fact sheet". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  8. Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) georgiana
  9. IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 3 July 2012.
  10. Glyptophysa (Oppletora) jukesii
  11. "Glyptophysa (Oppletora) jukesii - fact sheet". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  12. Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) novaehollandica
  13. "Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) novaehollandica - fact sheet". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  14. Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) vandiemenensis
  15. "Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) vandiemenensis - fact sheet". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  16. "Glyptophysa variabilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 20 January 2018.


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