Rifia is a species of very small fresh water snail with an operculum, an aquatic operculate gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.[1]

Rifia
Shell of Rifia yacoubii (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Rifia
Ghamizi, 2020
Type species
Rifia yacoubii Ghamizi, 2020

Species

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Species in the genus Rifia include:

References

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  1. Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2021). "Rifia Ghamizi, 2020". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
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  • Ghamizi M. (2020). "New stygobiont genus and new species (Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from the Rif (Morocco)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 31: 50–56. doi:10.37828/em.2020.31.11.