Potamolithus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Tateidae
- Genus
- Potamolithus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Potamolithus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Potamolithus
Potamolithus is a genus of small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Tateidae.
Potamolithus was traditionally classified within the Hydrobiidae. However, anatomical study of Potamolithus by Davis & Pons da Silva (1984) showed its relationship with Lithoglyphus, and it is then placed within the family Lithoglyphidae.
The first appearance of the name Potamolithus was in November 1896 as a nomen nudum (a bare name with no description or illustration). The genus was formally defined by Pilsbry in December 1896.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ascorhis
- Austropyrgus
- Beddomeia
- Caldicochlea
- Caledoconcha
- Carnarvoncochlea
- Catapyrgus
- Fluvidona
- Fluviopupa
- Fonscochlea
- Hadopyrgus
- Halopyrgus
- Hemistomia
- Indopyrgus
- Jardinella
- Kanakyella
- Kuschelita
- Leiorhagium
- Leptopyrgus
- Meridiopyrgus
- Nanocochlea
- Novacaledonia
- Obtusopyrgus
- Opacuincola
- Paxillostium
- Phrantela
- Pidaconomus
- Platypyrgus
- Posticobia
- Potamolithus
- Potamopyrgus
- Pseudotricula
- Rakipyrgus
- Rakiurapyrgus
- Sororipyrgus
- Sulawesidrobia
- Tatea
- Tongapyrgus
- Trochidrobia
- Victodrobia