Thiara
Thiara cancellata shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Thiara
Röding, 1798
Type species
Helix amarula Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Amarula (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cerithomelania J. Moore, 1899 (objective synonym of Thiara)
  • Doryssa (Melania) Lamarck, 1799
  • Melacantha Swainson, 1840 (objective synonym of Thiara)
  • Melanea Lamarck, 1799 (incorrect subsequent spelling; junior objective synonym, with the same type species)
  • Melania Lamarck, 1799
  • Melania (Tiaropsis) Brot, 1871 (invalid: junior homonym of Tiaropsis L. Agassiz, 1850 [Cnidaria])
  • Thiara Bolten, 1798

Thiara is a genus of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Thiarinae of the family Thiaridae.[1]

Species

Thiara winteri, abapertural view

Species with accepted names within the genus Thiara include:

  • † Thiara aldrichi Palmer, 1944
  • Thiara amarula (C. Linnaeus, 1758) - Africa, Australia, India[2]
  • Thiara aspera (Lesson, 1831)
  • Thiara australis (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
  • Thiara bellicosa (Hinds, 1844)
  • Thiara cancellata P. F. Röding, 1798 - Indo-Pacific[2]
  • Thiara epidromoides (Tapparone Canefri, 1883)
  • † Thiara fallax (Oostingh, 1935)
  • Thiara herklotzi (Petit de la Saussaye, 1853)
  • Thiara indefinita (I. & H. C. Lea, 1851) - Hawaiian Islands[2]
  • Thiara jingorum Thach & F. Huber, 2021
  • Thiara kauaiensis (W. H. Pease, 1870) - Hawaiian Islands[2]
  • † Thiara martini (Oostingh, 1935)
  • Thiara paludomoidea Nevill, 1884 - India[2] (unresolved name)
  • Thiara prashadi Ray, 1947 - India[2]
  • Thiara rudis I. Lea, 1850 - India[2][3]
  • † Thiara samarangana (K. Martin, 1884)
  • Thiara setigera (Brot, 1870)
  • Thiara verrauiana I. Lea, 1856 - Hawaiian Islands[2]
  • Thiara winteri (von Dem Busch, 1842) - Indo-Pacific, spiky trumpet snail[2]
Synonyms
  • Thiara amaruloidea Iredale, 1943: synonym of Thiara amarula (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Thiara balonnensis T. A. Conrad, 1850 and Thiara lirata C. T. Menke, 1843[2] are synonyms of Plotiopsis balonnensis (Conrad, 1850)
  • Thiara baldwini C. F. Ancey, 1899 - Hawaiian Islands:[2] synonym of Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774) (junior synonym)
  • † Thiara fiscina Yokoyama, 1932: synonym of † Semisulcospira fiscina (Yokoyama, 1932) (new combination)
  • Thiara granifera (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1816)
  • Thiara lineata Gray, 1828 - India:[2] synonym of Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Thiara punctata (J. B. Lamarck, 1822) - India:[2] synonym of Stenomelania punctata (Lamarck, 1822)
  • Thiara riquetii (Grateloup, 1840): synonym of Sermyla riquetii (Grateloup, 1840)
  • Thiara rodericensis (E. A. Smith, 1876): synonym of Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Thiara scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) - Indo-Pacific:[2][4] synonym of Mieniplotia scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774)
    • Thiara scabra lyriformis I. Lea, 1850 - Japan[2]
    • Thiara scabra pagoda I. Lea, 1850 - Japan[2]
    • Thiara scabra subplicatula Smith, 1878 - Japan[2]
  • Thiara speciosa A. Adams, 1854:[2] synonym of Thiara amarula (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Thiara torulosa (Bruguière, 1789) - India:[2] synonym of Stenomelania torulosa (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Thiara tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774): synonym of Melanoides tuberculata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
  • Thiara vouamica Bourguignat, 1890: synonym of Thiara amarula (Linnaeus, 1758) (junior synonym)

References

  1. ↑ WoRMS (2009). Thiara. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206444 on 2010-05-18
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Shell-bearing Mollusca: Thiara Archived 2009-05-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ WMSD : Thiara rudis
  4. ↑ Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2012). "The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species". ZooKeys 219: 11-61, doi:10.3897/zookeys.219.3406.
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