Semisulcospira

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Semisulcospira
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Semisulcospira kurodai
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Semisulcospira

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Semisulcospira is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Semisulcospiridae.

Species in the genus Semisulcospira are viviparous.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Semisulcospira include:

"Semisulcospira libertina species complex" consist of four species: Semisulcospira libertina, Semisulcospira reiniana, Semisulcospira kurodai and Semisulcospira trachea.[6]

Ecology

Semisulcospira snails predate also on eggs of bluegill Lepomis macrochirus.[7]

Uses

A bowl of Korean take-out olgaengi (melanian snail) juk.

Semisulcospira snails are used in some forms of cuisine. In Korean cuisine, they are used to flavor a type of congee called juk, which is called olgaengi juk.

References

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Further reading

  • Oniwa K. & Kimura M. (1986). "Genetic variability and relationships in six snail species of the genus Semisulcospira". The Japanese journal of genetics 61(5): 503-514. CiNii. doi:10.1266/jjg.61.503

External links


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  1. Boettger (1886). Jahrb. dtsch. malak. Ges. 13: 4.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Strong E. & Köhler F. (2009). "Morphological and molecular analysis of "Melania" jacqueti Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906: from anonymous orphan to critical basal offshoot of the Semisulcospiridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Zoologica Scripta 38(5): 483-502. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00385.x
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Davis G. M. (1969). "A taxonomic study of some species of Semisulcospira in Japan (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae)". Malacologia 7: 211-294.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 11 November 2015.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Prozorova L. A. & Rasshepkina A. V. (2005). "On the reproductive anatomy of Semisulcospira (Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae: Semisulcospirinae)". The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 9: 123–126. PDF.
  6. (Japanese) Matsuoka K. & .野尻湖貝類グループ (1982) (Fossil Mollusc Research Group for Noiiri-ko Excavation). "野尻湖層産カワニナ胎児殼化石について : 現生カワニナとの比較研究 "On the fossil embryonic shell of Semisulcospira libertina (GOULD) (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae) from the latest Pleistocene Nojiri-ko Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan: A comparative study of recent and fossil Semisulcospira". 地球科學 Chikyu kagaku [Earth science] 36(4), 175-184. CiNii.
  7. (Japanese) Nakao H., Kawabata T., Fujita K., Nakai K. & Sawada H. (2006). "Predation on bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) broods by native snails. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 53(2): 167–173. PDF.