Marisa (gastropod)
| Marisa | |
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| Lateral view of a shell of Marisa cornuarietis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: |
Marisa J. E. Gray, 1824 |
| Diversity | |
| 2 species | |
Marisa is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
There are two species:
Based on analysis of mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA, and the (COI) gene, M. cornuarietis is a sister clade to M. planogyra and Asolene spixii, indicating that genus Marisa is not monophyletic.
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