| Fukuia kurodai | |
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| A pair of Fukuia kurodai kurodai mating above the water line | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Pomatiopsinae |
| Genus: | Fukuia |
| Species: | F. kurodai |
| Binomial name | |
| Fukuia kurodai Abbott & Hunter, 1949 | |
Fukuia kurodai is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Fukuia kurodai is the type species of the genus Fukuia.
Subspecies
There are two subspecies of Fukuia kurodai:
- Fukuia kurodai kurodai Abbott & Hunter, 1949
- Fukuia kurodai niigataensis Minato, 1973
Distribution
This species is endemic to Honshu, Japan.
Ecology
This species is a freshwater snail which lives in mountain streamlets. It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal.
References
- ^ 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.
External links
- "Fukuia kurodai kurodai". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- "Fukuia kurodai niigataensis". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Fukuia kurodai | |
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