Akiyoshia is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Amnicolidae.
Distribution The distribution of Akiyoshia includes JapanDavis G. M. & Rao S. (1997). "Discovery of Erhaia (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) in northern India with description of a new genus of Erhaiini from China". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48: 273-299. JSTOR. from whence it was described.
There are some indications that so-called "Akiyoshia" species from southern China may not be true Akiyoshia.
Description Species in the subgenus Saganoa from Japan are blind snails. "Akiyoshia" species from China are not blind.
Species Species within the genus Akiyoshia include:
Subgenus Akiyoshia Akiyoshia uenoi Kuroda & Habe, 1954 - the type species, was described from Japan
Subgenus Saganoa Kuroda, Habe & Tamu, 1957Kuroda & Habe (1957). Venus 19: 186-187, figures 5-8. "Akiyoshia" chinensis Liu, Zhang & Chen, 1982 - anatomy of this Chinese species was described in 1992,Davis G. M., Chen C.-E., Wu C., Kuang T.-F., Xing X.-G., Li L., Liu W.-J. & Yan Y.-L. (1992). "The Pomatiopsidae of Hunan, China (Gastropoda, Rissoacea)". Malacologia 34(1-2): 143-342. Akiyoshia kishiiana Kuroda, Habe & Tamu, 1957 Akiyoshia morimotoi 矢野 重文 Yano S. (). "コウチミジンツボ香川県に出現 [The Occurrence of Akiyoshia (Saganoa) morimotoi (Hydrobiidae) from Kagawa-ken]". ちりぼたん Newsletter of the Malacological Society of Japan 18(1): 14-15. CiNii. "Akiyoshia" yunnanensis Liu, Wang & Zhang, 1982
Nomina nuda: Akiyoshia odonta, Akiyoshia (Saganoa) odonta Feng et al., 1985 and Akiyoshia (Saganoa) odonta Feng et al., 1986 are nomina nuda.
Ecology The habitat for species in the Saganoa subgenus from Japan is caves and wells.
"Akiyoshia" species from China live in streams.
References
External links https://web.archive.org/web/20110929141541/http://www.palaeos.org/Akiyoshia 波部 忠重 Habe T. (1980). "カワネミジンツボ [Subterranean tiny snail Saganoa]. ちりぼたん Newsletter of the Malacological Society of Japan 11(4): 74-75. CiNIi. 湊 宏 Minato H. (1986). "地下水棲微小巻貝を和歌山県から採集する [Subterranean Minute Snail, Akiyoshia (Saganoa) Collected from Wakayama-ken]". ちりぼたん Newsletter of the Malacological Society of Japan 17(2): 38-39. CiNii. 佐野 基人 [他] (1979). "静岡県における肺吸虫の調査-2-宮崎肺吸虫の第1中間宿主Saganoa sp.およびその幼虫について". Japanese Journal of Parasitology 28(4): 211-217. CiNii.