Sibirenauta sibirica is a species of small air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae, a family which are sometimes known as the bladder snails.
Taxonomy Swedish malacologist Carl Agardh Westerlund discovered and described this species under the name Physa sibirica in 1877.Vinarski M. V., Nekhaev I. O., Glöer P. & von Proschwitz T. (2013). "Type materials of freshwater gastropod species described by C.A. Westerlund and accepted in current malacological taxonomy: a taxonomic and nomenclatorial study". Ruthenica 23: 79–108. Starobogatov et al. moved this species to the genus Sibirenauta in 1989. Vinarski and colleagues designated the lectotype for Sibirenauta sibirica in 2013 and the lectotype is stored in the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. The generic name Sibirenauta is feminine (according to original description), the correct species name should be Sibirenauta sibirica instead of S. sibiricus as it was cited by several authors.Nekhaev I. O. (2015). "Surviving at the edge of land: finding of the limnetic snail Sibirenauta sibirica (Gastropoda: Physidae) on the coast of the Laptev Sea (Eastern Siberia)". Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 19: 25-30.
Distribution Distribution of Sibirenauta sibirica include northern Asia and Alaska. It occurs in Arctic Asia, Subarctic Asia and in the south of Eastern Siberia.
This species occurs in: Wrangel Island, Russia.Vinarski M. V., Palatov D. M. & Novichkova A. (2015). "The first freshwater molluscs from Wrangel Island, Arctic Russia". Polar Research 34: 23889. No mollusc species were found on Wrangel Island up to 2015.
The type locality is Yenisei River, Sopotchnaya Korga, 71°40’N in Taymyr Peninsula.
Description The external and internal morphology is described and depicted for example by Vinarski et al. 2015.
The height of the shell is up to , usually The shell has 6 whorls.
Dimensions of the lectotype are as follows: The width of the shell is . The height of the shell is . The shell has 4.75 whorls.
Ecology For example, there was pH 8.2 and 84 ppm NaCl on the lake locality in the Wrangel Island.
References
External links Taylor D. W. (2003). "Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila). Biology, classification, morphology". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 1): 1-299. (1-195, 197-263, 265-287). page 71.