Esperiana esperi

Esperiana esperi is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Melanopsidae.[3]

Esperiana esperi
a live Esperiana esperi out of water
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Melanopsidae
Genus:
Esperiana
Species:
E. esperi
Binomial name
Esperiana esperi
(Férussac , 1823)[2]
Synonyms

Fagotia esperi (A. Férussac, 1823)

Distribution

Distribution of this species is Pontic.[4]

This species is found in Austria, Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia,[5] and Ukraine.[6]

Description
Shell of Esperiana esperi

References
  1. Feher Z. (2011). "Fagotia esperi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 August 2014.
  2. (in French) Férussac, A. E. J. P. J. F. d'Audebard de (1823). "Monographie des espèces vivantes et fossiles du genre mélanopside, Melanopsis, et observations géologiques à leur sujet". Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1: 132-164, Plate VII-VIII.
  3. (in German) Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.
  4. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
  5. (in Czech) Horsák M., Juřičková L., Beran L., Čejka T. & Dvořák L. (2010). "Komentovaný seznam měkkýšů zjištěných ve volné přírodě České a Slovenské republiky. [Annotated list of mollusc species recorded outdoors in the Czech and Slovak Republics]". Malacologica Bohemoslovaca, Suppl. 1: 1-37. PDF.
  6. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Fagotia esperi". 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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