Doryssa is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.
| Doryssa | |
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| Two shells of Doryssa consolidata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Doryssa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 |
Distribution edit
These freshwater snails are endemic to South America.
Species edit
Species within the genus Doryssa include:
- Doryssa atra (Bruguière, 1792)[1]
- Doryssa brevior (Troschel, 1848) - type species of the genus Doryssa[2]
- Doryssa consolidata (Bruguière, 1790)[1]
- Doryssa derivans Brot, 1874
- Doryssa geijskesi (Pain, 1956)
- Doryssa gruneri (Jonas, 1844)[1]
- Doryssa hohenackeri (Philippi, 1851)[2]
- Doryssa kappleri (Vernhout, 1914)[3]
- Doryssa lamarckiana (Brot, 1870)[1]
- Doryssa petechialis (Brot, 1860)
- Doryssa schuppi (Ihering, 1902)
- Doryssa transversa (Lea, 1850)
References edit
- ^ a b c d Baker H. B. (1930). "The Mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela". Occasional Paper of Museum of zoology 210: 1–95. PDF
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2015). Doryssa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=848311 on 2015-10-09
- ^ Abbott R. T. (1955). "Anatomy of the Venezuelan gastropod, Doryssa kappleri". The Nautilus 69: 44–46, plate.