Skip to content
Ferrissia

Specimen image via iDigBio · CC0

EntityQ292780· pop 10· linked from 22 articles

Ferrissia is a genus of small, air-breathing freshwater limpets, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae.

Species

ancylids

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. FamilyPlanorbidae
Habitatfreshwater

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
1,706
With media
381
Family
Planorbidae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, SDNHM, CM, UTEP, USNM, CMN
Recorded in
Italy, United States, Canada

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Planorbidae
Image
Ferissia clessiana A MRKVICKA.JPG
Show 4 more facts
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Ferrissia
topic's main category
Category:Ferrissia
Commons category
Ferrissia
Sources (1)

via Wikidata · CC0

~3 min read

Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Species
  • References
  • External links

Ferrissia is a genus of small, air-breathing freshwater limpets, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae.

==Species== Species within the genus Ferrissia include: Ferrissia baconi (Bourguignat, 1853) Ferrissia beaui (Bourguignat, 1853) - Beau's Stream Limpet Ferrissia burnupi (Walker, 1912) Ferrissia cawstoni Walker, 1924 Ferrissia ceylanica Benson, 1864 Ferrissia chudeaui Germain, 1917 Ferrissia clifdeni Connolly, 1939 Ferrissia connollyi (Walker, 1912) † Ferrissia crenellata Harzhauser & Neubauer in Harzhauser et al., 2012 † Ferrissia deperdita (Desmarest, 1814) † Ferrissia dimici (Brusina, 1902) Ferrissia dohrnianus (Clessin, 1882) Ferrissia eburnensis Binder, 1957 Ferrissia farquhari (Walker, 1924) Ferrissia fontinalis (Walker, 1912) Ferrissia fragilis (Tryon, 1863) - synonyms: Ferrissia clessiniana (Jickeli, 1882), Ferrissia wautieri (Mirolli, 1960) - Fragile Ancylid Ferrissia gentilis Lanzer, 1991 † Ferrissia illyrica (Neumayr, 1880) Ferrissia irrorata (Guilding, 1828) Ferrissia isseli (Bourguignat, 1866) Ferrissia junodi Connolly, 1925 Ferrissia kavirondica (Mandahl-Barth, 1954) Ferrissia lacustris Walker, 1924 Ferrissia leonensis Connolly, 1928 Ferrissia lhotelleriei Walker, 1914 - dubious species Ferrissia mcneili Walker, 1925 - hood ancylid Ferrissia modesta Crosse, 1880 Ferrissia natalensis Walker, 1924 Ferrissia neozelanica (Suter, 1905) † Ferrissia neumayri (Fontannes, 1881) Ferrissia pallaryi Walker, 1914 - dubious species Ferrissia parallela (Haldeman) - oblong ancylid or Ferrissia parallelus Ferrissia petterdi (Johnston, 1879) † Ferrissia pontileviensis (Morgan, 1920) Ferrissia siamensis Brandt, 1974 Ferrissia rivularis (Say, 1817) - the type species Ferrissia tasmanica (Woods, 1876) Ferrissia tanganyicensis (Smith, 1906) Ferrissia tenuis (Bourguignat, 1862) Ferrissia toroensis (Mandahl-Barth, 1954) † Ferrissia truci Wautier, 1975 Ferrissia verruca (Benson, 1855) Ferrissia victoriensis (Walker, 1912) Ferrissia viola (Annandale & Prashad, 1921) Ferrissia walkeri (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1907) † Ferrissia wittmanni (Schlickum, 1964) Ferrissia zambesiensis (Walker, 1912) Ferrissia zambiensis Mandahl-Barth, 1968

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ferrissia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 9 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0