Fukuia kurodai

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

Fukuia kurodai
A pair of Fukuia kurodai kurodai mating above the water line
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Littorinimorpha
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily:
Pomatiopsinae
Genus:
Fukuia
Species:
F. kurodai
Binomial name
Fukuia kurodai
Abbott & Hunter, 1949

Fukuia kurodai is the type species of the genus Fukuia.

Subspecies

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

This species is a freshwater snail which lives in mountain streamlets.[1] It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal.[1]

References
  1. Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.


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