Fukuia kurodai

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Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Fukuia kurodai
A pair of Fukuia kurodai kurodai mating above the water line
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Genus: Fukuia
Species:
F. kurodai
Binomial name
Fukuia kurodai
Abbott & Hunter, 1949

Fukuia kurodai is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[1]

Fukuia kurodai is the type species of the genus Fukuia.

There are two[1] subspecies of Fukuia kurodai:

  • Fukuia kurodai kurodai Abbott & Hunter, 1949[1]
  • Fukuia kurodai niigataensis Minato, 1973[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Honshu, Japan.[1]

Dripping rocks covered with bryophytes beside a waterfall are inhabited by the amphibious species Fukuia kurodai

Ecology

References

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