Fukuia kurodai Abbott & Hunter 1949

Fukuia kurodai is a species of amphibious freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.^[1]

Fukuia kurodai is the type species of the genus Fukuia.

Subspecies

There are two^[1] subspecies of Fukuia kurodai:

• Fukuia kurodai kurodai Abbott & Hunter, 1949^[1]
• Fukuia kurodai niigataensis Minato, 1973^[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Honshu, Japan.^[1]

Dripping rocks covered with bryophytes beside a waterfall are inhabited by the amphibious species Fukuia kurodai

Ecology

This species is a freshwater snail which lives in mountain streamlets.^[1] It is also an amphibious snail and it is often arboreal.^[1]

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