Mexinauta

Mexinauta is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Aplexinae of the family Physidae.

Species

• Mexinauta aurantius <small>(Carpenter, 1857)</small>
• Mexinauta gracilentus <small>(P. Fischer & Crosse, 1886)</small>
• Mexinauta impluviatus <small>(Morelet, 1849)</small>
• Mexinauta laetus <small>(E. von Martens, 1898)</small>
• Mexinauta nicaraguanus <small>(Morelet, 1851)</small>
• Mexinauta nitens <small>(Philippi, 1841)</small>
• Mexinauta peruvianus <small>(Gray, 1828)</small>
• Mexinauta princeps <small>(Phillips, 1846)</small>

• Mexinauta aurantia <small>(Carpenter, 1857)</small>: synonym of Mexinauta aurantius <small>(Carpenter, 1857)</small> (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet; Mexinauta is masculine")

References

External links

• Taylor, D. W. (2003). Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); biogeography, classification, morphology. Revista de Biología Tropical. 51(Suppl. 1): 1-263 (includes a Catalog of species, pp. 197-263)