Mercuria is a genus of small brackish water snails or freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.[3]
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| Shell of Mercuria bourguignati (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Mercuriinae Boeters & Falkner, 2017 |
| Genus: | Mercuria Boeters, 1971[1] |
| Type species | |
| Amnicola confusa Frauenfeld, 1863
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Species edit
Species within the genus Mercuria include:[4]
- Mercuria anatina (Poiret, 1801)
- Mercuria atlasica Mabrouki, Glöer & Taybi, 2021
- †Mercuria baccinelliana Esu & Girotti, 2015
- Mercuria bakeri Glöer, Boeters & Walther, 2015
- Mercuria balearica (Paladilhe, 1869)
- Mercuria baudoniana (Gassies, 1859)
- Mercuria bayonnensis (Locard, 1894)
- †Mercuria boetersi Schlickum & Strauch, 1979
- Mercuria bourguignati Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010[5]
- Mercuria corsensis Boeters & Falkner, 2017
- Mercuria gauthieri Glöer, Bouzid & Boeters, 2010[5]
- †Mercuria glaberrima (O. Boettger, 1875)
- Mercuria globulina (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)
- †Mercuria helicella (F. Sandberger, 1858)
- Mercuria letourneuxiana (Bourguignat, 1862) [6]
- Mercuria maceana (Paladilhe, 1869)
- Mercuria melitensis (Paladilhe, 1869)
- Mercuria meridionalis (Risso, 1826)
- Mercuria midarensis Boulaassafer, Ghamizi & Delicado, 2018
- Mercuria punica (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)
- Mercuria pycnocheilia (Bourguignat, 1862)
- Mercuria rolani Glöer, Boeters & Walther, 2015
- Mercuria saharica (Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887)
- Mercuria sarahae (Paladilhe, 1869)
- Mercuria similis (Draparnaud, 1805) [7]
- Mercuria tachoensis (Frauenfeld, 1865)
- Mercuria tensiftensis Boulaassafer, Ghamizi & Delicado, 2018
- Mercuria tingitana Glöer, Boeters & Walther, 2015
- †Mercuria vanparysi Marquet et al., 2008
- Mercuria zopissa (Paulucci, 1882)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Mercuria confusa (Frauenfeld, 1863):[8] synonym of Mercuria similis (Draparnaud, 1805)
- Mercuria edmundi Boeters, 1986: synonym of Mercuria tachoensis (Frauenfeld, 1865) (junior synonym)
- Mercuria emiliana (Paladilhe, 1869): synonym of Pseudamnicola emilianus (Paladilhe, 1869) [9]
- Mercuria perforata (Bourguignat, 1862) : synonym of Pseudamnicola dupotetiana (Forbes, 1838)
- Mercuria vindilica (Paladilhe, 1870): synonym of Mercuria sarahae vindilica (Paladilhe, 1870)
References edit
- ^ Boeters, H. D. (1971). Pseudamnicola Paulucci, 1878 und Mercuria n. gen. (Prosobranchia, Hydrobiidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 101: 177.
- ^ "Mercuria". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- ^ Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
- ^ "Taxon Details: Mercuria Boeters 1971". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on July 27, 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ a b Glöer P., Bouzid S. & Boeters H. D. (2010). "Revision of the genera Pseudamnicola Paulucci 1878 and Mercuria Boeters 1971 from Algeria with particular emphasis on museum collections (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 1-22. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/001-022.
- ^ Van Damme, D. & Ghamizi, M. 2010. Mercuria letourneuxiana (Bourguignat, 1862). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T184749A8326304.en
- ^ Chlyeh G., Dodet M., Delay B., Khallaayoune K. & Jarne P. (2006). "Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Freshwater Snail Species in Relation to Migration and Environmental Factors in an Irrigated Area from Morocco". Hydrobiologia 553(1): 129-142. doi:10.1007/s10750-005-0968-9.
- ^ Gofas, S. (2022). "Mercuria confusa". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- ^ "Mercuria emiliana". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
External links edit
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