Fontigens
Genus of gastropods
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Fontigens is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Fontigentidae.[1]
| Fontigens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Fontigentidae |
| Genus: | Fontigens Pilsbry, 1933 |
| Type species | |
| Paludina nickliniana I. Lea, 1838 | |
Species
Species within the genus Fontigens include:[2]
- Fontigens aldrichi (Call & Beecher, 1886)
- Fontigens antroecetes (Hubricht, 1940)
- Fontigens binneyana Hannibal, 1912
- Fontigens bottimeri (B.Walker, 1925)
- Fontigens cryptica Hubricht, 1963
- Fontigens davisi Dillon, Malabad, Orndorff & H-P. Liu, 2023
- Fontigens hershleri Dillon, Malabad, Orndorff & H-P. Liu, 2023
- Fontigens morrisoni Hershler, Holsinger & Hubricht, 1990
- Fontigens nickliniana (I.Lea, 1838)
- Fontigens orolibas Hubricht, 1957
- † Fontigens palaea Pilsbry, 1953
- Fontigens proserpina (Hubricht, 1940)
- † Fontigens symmetrica Pilsbry, 1953
- Fontigens tartarea Hubricht, 1963
- 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)
