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Fontigens
Sign in to saveFontigens is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Fontigentidae.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyFontigentidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 83
- With media
- 17
- Family
- Fontigentidae
- Collections
- UF, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States
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- Pilsbry, 1933
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Fontigens is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Fontigentidae.
==Species== Species within the genus Fontigens include: Fontigens aldrichi Fontigens antroecetes Fontigens binneyana Fontigens bottimeri Fontigens cryptica Fontigens davisi Dillon, Malabad, Orndorff & H-P. Liu, 2023 Fontigens hershleri Dillon, Malabad, Orndorff & H-P. Liu, 2023 Fontigens morrisoni Fontigens nickliniana Fontigens orolibas † Fontigens palaea Pilsbry, 1953 Fontigens proserpina † Fontigens symmetrica Pilsbry, 1953 Fontigens tartarea Fontigens turritella Hubricht, 1976 - Greenbrier cavesnail Synonyms: Fontigens holsingeri Hubricht, 1976 - Tapered cavesnail: synonym of Fontigens tartarea Hubricht, 1963 (junior subjective synonym) Fontigens oxybeles Pilsbry, 1950: synonym of Tryonia aequicostata (Pilsbry, 1890) (junior subjective synonym) Fontigens weberi Pilsbry, 1950: synonym of Tryonia aequicostata (Pilsbry, 1890) (junior subjective synonym)
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