Benedictia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily:	Benedictiinae
Genus:	Benedictia Dybowski, 1875^[1]
Diversity^[2]
10 species

Benedictia is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Lithoglyphidae.^[3]

Benedictia is the type genus of the subfamily Benedictiinae.^[3]

Distribution

The genus Benedictia is endemic to Lake Baikal.^[4]

Species

Species within the genus Benedictia include:

Benedictia baicalensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859)^[2]^[4]
Benedictia distinguenda Lindholm, 1924^[2]
- Benedictia distinguenda lamuana Sitnikova, 1987^[2]
Benedictia fragilis W. Dybowski, 1875 - type species^[2]
Benedictia kotyensis Matiokin, Dzuban & Sitnikova, 1988^[2]^[5]
Benedictia limnaeoides (Schrenck, 1867)^[2]
- Benedictia limnaeoides ongurensis Kozhov, 1936^[2]
- Benedictia limnaeoides litoralis Kozhov, 1936^[2]
Benedictia maxima (W. Dybowski, 1875)^[2]^[4]
- Benedictia maxima marisminus Sitnikova, 1987^[2]
Benedictia nana Beckman & Starobogatov, 1975 ^[2]
Benedictia pulchella Sitnikova, 1987^[2]
Benedictia pulchella sarmensis Sitnikova, 1987^[2]
Benedictia pumyla (Lindholm, 1924)^[2]
Benedictia shadini Beckman & Starobogatov, 1975^[2]

References

^ Dybowski W. (1875). "Die Gastropoden-Fauna des Baikal-Sees, anatomisch und systematisch bearbeitet". Mémories de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.Pétersbourg (7)22(8), 73 pp. page 4.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1 Archived 2016-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hausdorf, Bernhard; Röpstorf, Peter; Riedel, Frank (2003). "Relationships and origin of endemic Lake Baikal gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 26 (3): 435–43. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00365-2. PMID 12644402..
^ (in Russian) Матекин П. В., Дзубан Т. А. & Ситникова Т. Я. [Matiokin P. V., Dzuban T. A.] & Sitnikova T. Ya. (1988). "О новом виде рода Benedictia (Gastropoda, Benedictiidae) из озера Байкал". ["New species of the genus Benedictia (Gastropoda, Benedictiidae) from Baikal Lake". Зоологический Журнал Zoologicheskij Zhurnal 67(1): 129-135.