Baicaliidae
family of molluscs
Baicaliidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.
Description
(Original description in French) The foot is simple.The central tooth of the radula lacks basal denticulations. The penis is non-bifid. The operculum is corneous and spiral (type genus: Baicalia).
Genera
Baicalia Martens, 1876
Dybowskia Dall, 1877: synonym of Teratobaikalia Lindholm, 1909
Godlewskia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1879
Korotnewia Kozhov, 1936
Liobaicalia Martens, 1876, synonymised with:
Maackia Clessin, 1880, synoynmised with:
Parabaikalia Lindholm, 1909
Pseudobaikalia Lindholm, 1909, synonymised with:
Pyrgobaicalia Starobogatov, 1972
Teratobaikalia Lindholm, 1909, synonymised with:
References
External links
Sitnikova, T.; Peretolchina, T.; Prozorova, L.; Sherbakov, D.; Babushkin, E.; Vinarski, M. (2023). "The North Asian Genus Kolhymamnicola Starobogatov and Budnikova 1976 (Gastropoda: Amnicolidae), Its Extended Diagnosis, Distribution, and Taxonomic Relationships". Diversity.
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