Floridobia

Floridobia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Subfamily:	Nymphophilinae
Genus:	Floridobia Thompson & Hershler, 2002[1]
Type species
Amnicola floridana Frauenfeld, 1863[1]

Floridobia is a genus of very small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Floridobia include:^[1][3][4]

• Floridobia alexander
• Floridobia floridana
• Floridobia fraterna
• Floridobia helicogyra, Crystal siltsnail
• Floridobia mica, Ichetucknee siltsnail
• Floridobia monroensis, Enterprise siltsnail
• Floridobia parva, Pygmy siltsnail
• Floridobia peracuta
• Floridobia petrifons
• Floridobia ponderosa, Ponderous siltsnail
• Floridobia porteri
• Floridobia vanhyningi, Seminole siltsnail
• Floridobia wekiwae, Wekiwa siltsnail
• Floridobia winkleyi

References

1. Thompson F. G.; Hershler R. (2002). "Two genera of North American freshwater snails: Marstonia Baker, 1926, resurrected to generic status, and Floridobia, new genus (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae: Nymphophilinae)". The Veliger. 45 (3): 269–271. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
2. Bouchet, P. (2014). "Floridobia F. G. Thompson & Hershler, 2002". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
3. "Floridobia". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. IUCN. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
4. "Floridobia". UniProt. Retrieved 4 August 2014.

Further reading

• Hershler, R., Liu, H.-P. & Thompson, F. G. (2003). "Phylogenetic relationships of North American nymphophiline gastropods based on mitochondrial DNA sequences" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta. The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. 32 (4): 357–366. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00115.x. Retrieved 5 August 2014.