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Marisa
Marisa cornuarietis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Marisa
J. E. Gray, 1824[1]

Marisa is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Species

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There are two species:

Phylogeny

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Based on analysis of mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA, 16S ribosomal RNA, and the cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) gene, M. cornuarietis is a sister clade to M. planogyra and Asolene spixii, indicating that genus Marisa is not monophyletic.[2]

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