Iravadia

Iravadia is a genus of very small, somewhat amphibious land snails that have a gill and an operculum, semi-terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusk in the family Iravadiidae.^[2]

Iravadia
Shell of Iravadia quadrasi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Iravadiidae
Genus:	Iravadia Blanford, 1867[1]
Type species
Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
Synonyms[2]
Fairbankia Stoliczka, 1868 Iravadia (Fairbankia) Stoliczka, 1868 Iravadia (Iravadia) Blanford, 1867 Rissoina (Iravadia) W. T. Blandford, 1867

These tiny snails live in damp habitat (under rotting vegetation) that is very close to the edge of the sea; they can tolerate being washed with saltwater during especially high tides. These snails are listed as freshwater snails by Vaught (1989).^[3]

Taxonomy

William Thomas Blanford established the genus Iravadia within the family Rissoidae in 1867.

Species

Species within the genus Iravadia include:

• Iravadia angulata (Laseron, 1956)
• Iravadia bombayana (Stoliczka, 1868)
• Iravadia capitata (Laseron, 1956)
• Iravadia carpentariensis (Hedley, 1912)
• Iravadia cochinchinensis (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1910)
• † Iravadia dolini Lozouet, 2003^[4]
• Iravadia elongata (Hornung & Mermod, 1928)
• Iravadia goliath (Laseron, 1956)
• Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867 - type species of the genus Iravadia^[4]
• Iravadia pilbara Golding, 2014
• Iravadia quadrasi (O. Boettger, 1893)
• Iravadia quadrina (Laseron, 1956)
• Iravadia rohdei (Brandt, 1968)
• Iravadia tenella Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912
• Iravadia tenuilirata (Boettger, 1893)

Species brought into synonymy

• Iravadia annandalei Preston, 1916: synonym of Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
• Iravadia aristaei (Melvill, 1912): synonym of Pseudonoba aristaei (Melvill, 1912)
• Iravadia atemeles (Melvill, 1912): synonym of Pseudonoba atemeles (Melvill, 1896)
• Iravadia australis Hedley, 1900: synonym of Pellamora australis (Hedley, 1901)
• Iravadia bella (A. Adams, 1853): synonym of Iravadia delicata (Philippi, 1849)
• Iravadia delicata (Philippi, 1849): synonym of Pseudonoba delicata (Philippi, 1849)
• Iravadia densilabrum (Melvill, 1912): synonym of Pellamora densilabrum (Melvill, 1912)
• Iravadia elegantula (A. Adams, 1861): synonym of Fluviocingula elegantula (A. Adams, 1861)
• Iravadia ennurensis Preston, 1916: synonym of Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
• Iravadia expansilabrum Ponder, 1984: synonym of Pseudonoba expansilabrum (Ponder, 1984) (original combination)
• Iravadia funerea Preston, 1916: synonym of Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
• Iravadia gemmata Ponder, 1984: synonym of Pseudonoba gemmata (Ponder, 1984)
• Iravadia ictriella (Melvill, 1910): synonym of Pseudonoba ictriella (Melvill, 1910)
• Iravadia inflata (Ponder, 1967): synonym of Pseudonoba inflata (Ponder, 1967)
• Iravadia mahimensis (Melvill, 1893): synonym of Pseudomerelina mahimensis (Melvill, 1893)
• Iravadia nipponica (Kuroda & Habe, 1954): synonym of Fluviocingula nipponica Kuroda & Habe, 1954
• Iravadia padangensis (Thiele, 1925): synonym of Pseudonoba padangensis (Thiele, 1925)
• Iravadia princeps Preston, 1915: synonym of Iravadia ornata Blanford, 1867
• Iravadia profundior Ponder, 1984: synonym of Pseudonoba profundior (Ponder, 1984) (originam combination)
• Iravadia resima (Laseron, 1956): synonym of Fluviocingula resima (Laseron, 1956)
• Iravadia reticulata Brandt, 1968: synonym of Iravadia quadrasi (O. Boettger, 1893)
• Iravadia sakaguchii (Kuroda & Habe, 1954): synonym of Wakauraia sakaguchii (Kuroda & Habe, 1954)
• Iravadia sublevis (Laseron, 1956): synonym of Pseudonoba sublevis (Laseron, 1956)
• Iravadia subquadrata (Laseron, 1950): synonym of Pseudonoba subquadrata (Laseron, 1950)
• Iravadia trochlearis (Gould, 1861): synonym of Stosicia annulata (Dunker, 1859)
• Iravadia tuberculata Brandt, 1974: synonym of Iravadia mahimensis (Melvill, 1893)
• Iravadia yendoi (Yokoyama, 1927): synonym of Pseudonoba yendoi (Yokoyama, 1927)