Juga
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Semisulcospiridae |
| Genus: | Juga H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854[1] |
Juga is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Semisulcospiridae.
These snails are native to the rivers of the northwestern United States and adjacent British Columbia. Several species are endemic to isolated large springs in the American Great Basin.[2]
The most abundant and widespread species, Juga plicifera, attains a height of up to 35 mm. It is sculpted with fine spiral ridges and variably developed ribs that frequently disappear in parts of the shell made as the animal matures.[citation needed]
Species
[edit | edit source]The following species and subspecies are recognized:
Subgenus Juga s.s.
- Juga hemphilli (J. Henderson, 1935)[3]
- Juga plicifera (I. Lea, 1838)[3]
- Juga silicula (Gould, 1847)[3]
Subgenus Calibasis
- Juga acutifilosa (Stearns, 1890)[3]
- Juga occata (Hinds, 1844)[3]
Subgenus Oreobasis
- Juga bulbosa (Gould, 1847)[3]
- Juga interioris (Goodrich, 1944)[3]
- Juga laurae (Goodrich, 1944)[3]
- Juga nigrina (I. Lea, 1856)[3]
subgenus ?
- Juga chacei (Henderson, 1935)[4]
- Juga newberryi (I. Lea, 1860)[4]
- Juga orickensis (Henderson, 1935)[4]
Ecology
[edit | edit source]Parasites of Juga spp. include the bacterium Neorickettsia risticii, which causes Potomac horse fever along with the associated trematode vector.[5] Juga species are also infected with the bacterium Neorickettsia helminthoeca and its associated fluke, Nanophyetus salmincola[6]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Adams H. (1854). Gen. Rec. Moll. 1: 300.
- ^ Strong, E. E., & Whelan, N. V. (2019). Assessing the diversity of western North American Juga (Semisulcospiridae, Gastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 136, 87-103.
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- ^ a b c d NatureServe Explorer, accessed 19 November 2015.
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- ^ Greiman, S. E., Kent, M. L., Betts, J., Cochell, D., Sigler, T., & Tkach, V. V. (2016). Nanophyetus salmincola, vector of the salmon poisoning disease agent Neorickettsia helminthoeca, harbors a second pathogenic Neorickettsia species. Veterinary parasitology, 229, 107-109.
 | This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (June 2011) |
- Clarke, Arthur H. 1981. The freshwater mollusks of Canada. National Museums of Canada. 446 pp.
- List including species in Oregon: https://web.archive.org/web/20081008065745/http://oregonstate.edu/ornhic/data/2004/inverts.html
External links
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