:Erinna (gastropod)

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| name = Erinna

| image = Erinna newcombi color.png

| image_caption = Erinna newcombi, a species with a sinistral shell

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila

| superfamilia = Lymnaeoidea

| familia = Lymnaeidae

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| genus = Erinna

| genus_authority = H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855Adams A. (1855) "Descriptions of Two New Genera and several New Species of Mollusca, from the Collection of Hugh Cumming" Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. [https://archive.org/details/proceedings37londgoog Part XXIII.] [https://archive.org/stream/proceedings37londgoog#page/n143/mode/1up 119]-124.

| type_species = Erinna newcombi

| type_species_authority = H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855

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Erinna is a genus of air-breathing, freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.{{cite journal|author=A. Morelet|year=1882|title=Observations critiques sur le Mémoire de M. E. v. Martens, intitulé: Mollusques des Mascareignes et des Séchelles|journal=Journal de Conchyliologie|volume=XXX|pages=104|publisher=H. Crosse|url=https://archive.org/stream/journaldeconchyl301882pari#page/104/mode/2up|accessdate=25 July 2013}} This genus is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, United States.

Species

Species within the genus Erinna include:

  • Erinna aulacospira (Ancey, 1889) – this species is considered as possibly extinct.{{cite web|url=http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Erinna+aulacospira|title=Erinna aulacospira|publisher=NatureServe|date=October 2012|accessdate=25 July 2013}}
  • Erinna newcombi H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 – Newcomb's snail, type species

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Category:Lymnaeidae

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