New Record of brackish water snail, Iravadia (Fluviocingula) elegantula (Sorbeoconcha:Iravadiidae), in Korea

  • Received : 2009.09.10
  • Accepted : 2009.11.06
  • Published : 2009.12.31

Abstract

One Iravadiid shell Iravadia (Fluviocingula) elegantula (A. Adams, 1861), from the brackish waters in Kangwon-do was recorded as new to the Korean molluscan fauna. The shell is typically solid and narrowely ovate-conic. The protoconch is small, planorboid to depressed dome-shaped, typically with a minute first whorl. Including the new records in this study, the family Iravadiidae contained 2 genera and 3 species in the Korean water.

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