Mercuria (gastropod)

Mercuria
Shell of Mercuria bourguignati (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Mercuriinae
Boeters & Falkner, 2017
Genus: Mercuria
Boeters, 1971
Type species
Amnicola confusa
Frauenfeld, 1863
Synonyms
  • Anatiniana Fagot, 1892 (invalid: junior homonym of Anatiniana Bourguignat, 1881 [Unionidae])
  • Cyrniacana Fagot, 1892 (declared nomen oblitum vs Mercuria nomen protectum)
  • Similiana Fagot, 1892 (invalid: junior homonym of Similiana Fagot, 1891 [Chondrinidae])

Mercuria is a genus of small brackish water snails or freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

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