Baicaliidae

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Baicaliidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.[1]

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Baicaliidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Baicaliidae
P. Fischer, 1885
Synonyms
  • Baicaliinae P. Fischer, 1885 superseded rank
  • Limnoreidae B. Dybowski, 1911 (invalid: type genus a junior homonym)
  • Liobaicaliinae B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1913
  • Turribaicaliinae B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1917
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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).[2]

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,[3] synoynmised with:
  • Parabaikalia Lindholm, 1909
  • Pseudobaikalia Lindholm, 1909, synonymised with:
  • Pyrgobaicalia Starobogatov, 1972
  • Teratobaikalia Lindholm, 1909, synonymised with:

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