Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

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The previous confirmed report of planorbid snail genus Amerianna from Indian sub-continent was limited to description of a new species, Bulinus indicus from Pune, Maharashtra, later it was recognised as Amerianna carinata. This study reports first molecular information of genus Amerianna from India and first confirmed report of this genus from southern India. Based on a BLAST query of a cytochrome oxidase subunit I sequence (cox1), the Indian material (Kochi, Kerala) showed 99.2% similarity with Amerianna from New Guinea. Since Amerianna systematic is complex it may require extensive taxonomic revision for the species status to be further studied.

Keywords

Bulinus indicus, Edappally Canal, Freshwater, Kerala, Kochi, Planorbella scalaris.
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