Fukuia
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| Genus: | Fukuia Abbott & Hunter, 1949[1]
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| 3 species and "Fukuia" ooyagii | |
Fukuia is a genus of amphibious freshwater snails and land snails with an operculum, gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Distribution[edit]
The genus Fukuia is endemic to Honshu, Japan.[2] These snails occur especially in the northern and western part of Japan, on the coast of the Sea of Japan.[2] There is a unique climate in the Sea of Japan with high precipitation due to winter snowfall in the area of distribution of Fukuia.[2] These snails have been described as a "Japan Sea element".[2]
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Species[edit]
Species within the genus Fukuia include:
- Fukuia integra (Pilsbry, 1924) - synonym: Blanfordia integra Pilsbry, 1924, terrestrial[2]
- Fukuia kurodai Abbott & Hunter, 1949 - type species,[3] amphibious[2]
- Fukuia multistriata Abbott & Hunter, 1949 - amphibious[2]
The speciation of genus Fukuia likely started around 7.2 million years ago in the Late Miocene.[2]
Unassigned to genus:
- Fukuia ooyagii Minato, 1982 - Aquatic species Fukuia ooyagii should be separated from Fukuia, and its generic assignment should be determined coupled with the investigation of its soft-part morphology.[2]
Ecology[edit]
Fukuia kurodai and Fukuia multistriata live amphibiously around rocky walls of steep valleys covered with ferns and bryophytes, and moistened by dripping water.[2] They live only along the mountain streamlets where such habitats are typically found, and often occur with pleurocerid freshwater snails.[2]
Fukuia integra lives as a terrestrial snail in inland forests.[2]
References[edit]
This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from the reference[2]
- ^ Abbott & Hunter (1949). Proc. helminth. Soc. Wash. 16: 79.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
- ^ Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. at Google books.
External links[edit]
Media related to Fukuia at Wikimedia Commons
