Sinotaia Haas, 1939

Zhang, Le-Jia & von Rintelen, Thomas, 2021, The neglected operculum: a revision of the opercular characters in river snails (Caenogastropoda: Viviparidae), Journal of Molluscan Studies 87 (2), pp. 1-14 : 12

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab008

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15098449

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/74498794-FF8C-E415-FBE6-2AE2FC5701CA

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Carolina

scientific name

Sinotaia Haas, 1939
status

 

Sinotaia Haas, 1939 View in CoL

Examined species: Sinotaia angularis (Müller, 1774) ( Figs 4C View Figure 4 , 5C View Figure 5 , 7C View Figure 7 ).

Remarks: Apart from Anularya , Sinotaia can be distinguished from other genera with a concentric inverted-comma-shaped operculum by the following combination of characters: a thick, smooth, shiny, non-transparent and small nuclear region and a thick enamel region.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Caenogastropoda

Order

Architaenioglossa

Family

Viviparidae

SubFamily

Bellamyinae

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