Gundlachia

Taxobox
name = "Gundlachia"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
subordo = Basommatophora
familia = Ancylidae
genus = "Gundlachia"
genus_authority = Pfeiffer, 1849
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.(Note: "Gundlachia" is also the name of a genus of shrubs which live in the Caribbean islands.)

"Gundlachia" is a genus of minute freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ancylidae, the river limpets. They have a world-wide distribution.

These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch". This serves as a gill as, in their non-tidal habitat, these limpets never reach the surface for air.

pecies within the genus "Gundlachia"

* "Gundlachia concentrica" (d’Orbigny, 1835)
* "Gundlachia lucasi" Suter, 1905
* "Gundlachia meehiana" Stimpson
* "Gundlachia moricandi" (Orbigny, 1837)
* "Gundlachia neozelanica" Suter, 1905
* "Gundlachia ticaga" (Marcus & Marcus, 1962)

References

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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0034-77442001000300004&script=sci_arttext Scielo]
* [http://www.bioline.org.br/request?oc04095 Bioline]