Thiara

Thiara is a genus of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Thiaridae.[1]

Thiara
Thiara cancellata shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Thiaridae
Genus:
Thiara

Röding, 1798
Synonyms
  • Amarula (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Thiara Bolten, 1798
  • Melania Lamarck, 1799
  • Melacantha Swainson, 1840

Species
Thiara winteri, abapertural view

Species with accepted names within the genus Thiara include:

(There probably should be brackets at some species).

  • Thiara amarula C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Africa, Australia, India[2]
  • Thiara baldwini C. F. Ancey, 1899 - Hawaiian Islands[2]
  • Thiara cancellata P. F. Röding, 1798 - Indo-Pacific[2]
  • Thiara indefinita I. & H. C. Lea, 1851 - Hawaiian Islands[2]
  • Thiara kauaiensis W. H. Pease, 1870 - Hawaiian Islands[2]
  • Thiara lineata Gray, 1828 - India[2]
  • Thiara paludomoidea Nevill, 1884 - India[2]
  • Thiara prashadi Ray, 1947 - India[2]
  • Thiara punctata J. B. Lamarck, 1822 - India[2]
  • Thiara rodericensis (Smith, 1876)[3]
  • Thiara rudis I. Lea, 1850 - India[2]
  • Thiara scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Indo-Pacific[2][4]
    • Thiara scabra lyriformis I. Lea, 1850 - Japan[2]
    • Thiara scabra pagoda I. Lea, 1850 - Japan[2]
    • Thiara scabra subplicatula Smith, 1878 - Japan[2]
  • Thiara speciosa A. Adams, 1854[2]
  • Thiara torulosa Bruguière, 1789 - India[2]
  • Thiara verrauiana I. Lea, 1856 - Hawaiian Islands[2]
  • Thiara winteri von Dem Busch, 1842 - Indo-Pacific, spiky trumpet snail[2]
Synonyms
  • Thiara balonnensis T. A. Conrad, 1850 and Thiara lirata C. T. Menke, 1843[2] are synonyms of Plotiopsis balonnensis (Conrad, 1850)

References
  1. WoRMS (2009). Thiara. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206444 on 2010-05-18
  2. Shell-bearing Mollusca: Thiara Archived 2009-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. WoRMS (2009). Thiara rodericensis (Smith, 1876). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214677 on 2010-05-18
  4. Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2012). "The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species". ZooKeys 219: 11-61, doi:10.3897/zookeys.219.3406.


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