Semisulcospira

Semisulcospira is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Semisulcospiridae.^{[2] [3]}

Semisulcospira
Shell of Semisulcospira pleuroceroides (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Semisulcospiridae
Genus:	Semisulcospira Boettger, 1886[1]
Type species
Melania libertina A. Gould, 1859
Synonyms
Biwamelania Matsuoka, 1985 Brotia (Senckenbergia) Yen, 1939 (junior synonym) Hua (Namrutua) Abbott, 1948 Melania (Semisulcospira) O. Boettger, 1886 (original rank) Namrutua Abbott, 1948 (junior synonym) Semisulcospira (Biwamelania) Matsuoka, 1985 · alternate representation Semisulcospira (Semisulcospira) O. Boettger, 1886 · alternate representation Senckenbergia Yen, 1939 (junior synonym)

Species in the genus Semisulcospira are viviparous.^[4]

Species

Species within the genus Semisulcospira include:

• Semisulcospira arenicola Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
• Semisulcospira calculus (Reeve, 1859)
• Semisulcospira coreana (Martens, 1886)
• Semisulcospira crassicosta Y.-Y. Liu, Y.-X. Wang & Y.-H. Duan, 1994
• Semisulcospira davisi Sawada & Nakano, 2021
• Semisulcospira decipiens (Westerlund, 1883)^[5]
• Semisulcospira diminuta Gredler, 1887^[6]
• Semisulcospira dilatata Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
• † Semisulcospira fiscina (Yokoyama, 1932)
• Semisulcospira fluvialis Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
• Semisulcospira forticosta (Martens, 1886)^[4][7]
• Semisulcospira fuscata Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
• † Semisulcospira gamoensis Matsuoka & Miura, 2019
• Semisulcospira gottschei (Martens, 1886)^[4]
• Semisulcospira gredleri (Boettger, 1886)^[7]
• Semisulcospira habei Davis, 1969^[5]
  • Semisulcospira habei yamaguchi Davis, 1969^[5]
• Semisulcospira hongkongensis Brot, 1874^[6]
• † Semisulcospira kokubuensis Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
• Semisulcospira kurodai Kajiyama & Habe, 1961^[4][5]
• Semisulcospira libertina (Gould, 1859)^[4][5]
• Semisulcospira marica Y.-Y. Liu, Y.-X. Wang & W.-Z. Zhang, 1994
• Semisulcospira morii Watanabe, 1984^[6]
• Semisulcospira multigranosa (Boettger, 1886)^[5]
• † Semisulcospira nagiensis (Matsuoka & Taguchi, 2013)
• † Semisulcospira nakamurai Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
• Semisulcospira nakasekoae Kuroda, 1929^[5]
• Semisulcospira ningpoensis (I. Lea, 1857)
• Semisulcospira niponica (Smith, 1876)^[5]
• † Semisulcospira nojirina Matsuoka & Miura, 2019
• Semisulcospira ourense Watanabe & Nishino, 1984^[6]
• Semisulcospira pacificans (Heude, 1888)^[6]
• Semisulcospira pleuroceroides (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1910)
• † Semisulcospira praemultigranosa Matsuoka, 1985
• † Semisulcospira pseudomultigranosa Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
• † Semisulcospira pusilla Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
• Semisulcospira reiniana (Brot, 1876)^[5]
• Semisulcospira reticulata Kajiyama & Habe, 1961^[5]
• † Semisulcospira reticulataformis Matsuoka & Miura, 2019
• Semisulcospira rugosa Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
• Semisulcospira shiraishiensis Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
• † Semisulcospira spinulifera Matsuoka & Miura, 2018
• † Semisulcospira tagaensis Matsuoka & Miura, 2019
• Semisulcospira takeshimensis Watanabe & Nishino, 1995
• Semisulcospira tegulata (Martens, 1894)^[4]
• Semisulcospira trachea (Westerlund, 1883)

"Semisulcospira libertina species complex" consist of four species: Semisulcospira libertina, Semisulcospira reiniana, Semisulcospira kurodai and Semisulcospira trachea.^[8]

Synonyms

• Semisulcospira dolichostoma Annandale, 1924: synonym of Koreoleptoxis dolichostoma (Annandale, 1924) (original combination)
• Semisulcospira inflata Tchang, 1949: synonym of Hua textrix (Heude, 1889) (junior synonym)
• Semisulcospira paludiformis Yen, 1939: synonym of Sulcospira paludiformis (Yen, 1939) (original combination)
• Semisulcospira paucicincta (E. von Martens, 1894): synonym of Semisulcospira calculus (Reeve, 1859) (junior synonym)
• † Semisulcospira recticancellata Kobayashi & Suzuki, 1939: synonym of † Pachychilus recticancellata (Kobayashi & Suzuki, 1939)
• Semisulcospira trivolvis Yen, 1939: synonym of Sulcospira paludiformis (Yen, 1939) (possible synonym)

Ecology

Semisulcospira snails predate also on eggs of bluegill Lepomis macrochirus.^[9]

Uses

A bowl of Korean take-out olgaengi (melanian snail) juk.

Semisulcospira snails are used in some forms of cuisine. In Korean cuisine, they are used to flavor a type of congee (juk), called olgaengi juk.

References

1. Boettger (1886). Jahrb. dtsch. malak. Ges. 13: 4.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Semisulcospira O. Boettger, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741120 on 2022-05-23
3. Lee, T., Hong, H. C., Kim, J. J., & Ó Foighil, D. (2007). Phylogenetic and taxonomic incongruence involving nuclear and mitochondrial markers in Korean populations of the freshwater snail genus Semisulcospira (Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43(2), 386–397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.018
4. Strong E. & Köhler F. (2009). "Morphological and molecular analysis of "Melania" jacqueti Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906: from anonymous orphan to critical basal offshoot of the Semisulcospiridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Zoologica Scripta 38(5): 483-502. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00385.x
5. Davis G. M. (1969). "A taxonomic study of some species of Semisulcospira in Japan (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae)". Malacologia 7: 211-294.
6. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 11 November 2015.
7. Prozorova L. A. & Rasshepkina A. V. (2005). "On the reproductive anatomy of Semisulcospira (Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae: Semisulcospirinae)". The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 9: 123–126. PDF.
8. (in Japanese) Matsuoka K. & .野尻湖貝類グループ (1982) (Fossil Mollusc Research Group for Noiiri-ko Excavation). "野尻湖層産カワニナ胎児殼化石について : 現生カワニナとの比較研究 "On the fossil embryonic shell of Semisulcospira libertina (GOULD) (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae) from the latest Pleistocene Nojiri-ko Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan: A comparative study of recent and fossil Semisulcospira". 地球科學 Chikyu kagaku [Earth science] 36(4), 175-184. CiNii.
9. (in Japanese) Nakao H., Kawabata T., Fujita K., Nakai K. & Sawada H. (2006). "Predation on bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) broods by native snails. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 53(2): 167–173. PDF.

• Yen, T.-C. (1939). Die chinesischen Land- und Süßwasser-Gastropoden des Natur-Museums Senckenberg. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 444: 1–233, pl. 1–16. Frankfurt am Main.
• Oniwa K. & Kimura M. (1986). "Genetic variability and relationships in six snail species of the genus Semisulcospira". The Japanese journal of genetics 61(5): 503–514. CiNii. doi:10.1266/jjg.61.503
• Wenz, W. (1938-1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. xii + 1639 pp. In: Schindewolf, O.H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Bornträger, Berlin. Lief. 1, 1-240

External links

• Search for Semisulcospira at CiNii
• Boettger, O. (1886). Zur Kenntniss der Melanien Chinas und Japans. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 13: 1-16
• Matsuoka, K. (1985). Pliocene freshwater gastropods from the Iga Formation of the Kobiwako Group, Mie Prefecture, Central Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, new series. 139: 180-195
• Abbott, R. T. (1948). Handbook of Medically Important Mollusks of the Orient and the Western Pacific. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 100 (3): 245-328
• Du, L.-N. (Li-Na); Köhler, F.; Yu, G.-H. (Guo-Hua); Chen, X.-Y.(Xiao-Yong); Yang, J.-X. (Jun-Xing). (2019). Comparative morpho-anatomy and mitochondrial phylogeny of the Semisulcospiridae of Yunnan, southwestern China, with description of four new species (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea). Invertebrate systematics. 33: 825-848