Fukuia kurodai is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Fukuia kurodai is the type species of the genus Fukuia.
Subspecies There are two subspecies of Fukuia kurodai: Fukuia kurodai kurodai Abbott & Hunter, 1949 Fukuia kurodai niigataensis Minato, 1973
Distribution This species is endemic to Honshu, Japan.Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. .
Ecology This species is a freshwater snail which lives in mountain streamlets. It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal.
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