Benedictia maxima
| Benedictia maxima | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Lithoglyphidae |
| Genus: | Benedictia |
| Species: | B. maxima
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| Binomial name | |
| Benedictia maxima | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hydrobia maxima W. Dybowski, 1875 | |
Benedictia maxima is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae.
Subspecies
- Benedictia maxima maxima (W. Dybowski, 1875)[2]
- Benedictia maxima marisminus (Sitnikova, 1987)[2][3]
Distribution
Benedictia maxima maxima lives in the southern and central parts of Lake Baikal, Siberia, in depths from 40 to 260 m.[2] The type locality for Benedictia maxima maxima is Kultuk, in southern Baikal.[2]
Benedictia maxima marisminus lives in the northern part of Lake Baikal, in depths from 20 to 220 m.[2] The type locality for Benedictia maxima marisminus is Maloe More, in northern Baikal.[2]
References
- ^ Dybowski W. (1875). "Die Gastropoden-Fauna des Baikal-Sees, anatomisch und systematisch bearbeitet". Mémories de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.Pétersbourg (7)22(8), 73 pp., page 27, plate 1, fig. 24.
- ^ a b c d e f Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1. Archived 2016-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Russian) Sitnikova T. Ya. [Ситникова Т.Я.] (1987). "К систематике байкальских эндемичных моллюсков семейства Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) [To the systematics of baikalian endemic molluscs of the family Benedictiidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia)]". Зоологический Журнал Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 66(10): 1463–1476. page 1474, fig. 3-4.