Doryssa

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Doryssa consolidata del Rio Ventuari, Amazonas - Venezuela 000.jpg | image_caption = Two shells of ''Doryssa consolidata'' | taxon = Doryssa | authority = H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = }}

'''''Doryssa''''' is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.

== Distribution == These freshwater snails are endemic to South America.

== Species == Species within the genus ''Doryssa'' include: * ''Doryssa atra'' (Bruguière, 1792)<ref name="Baker 1930">Baker H. B. (1930). "The Mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela". ''Occasional Paper of Museum of zoology'' '''210''': 1–95. [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/56649/1/OP210.pdf PDF]</ref> * ''Doryssa brevior'' (Troschel, 1848) - type species of the genus ''Doryssa''<ref name="WoRMS 2015">Bouchet, P. (2015). ''Doryssa'' H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=848311 on 2015-10-09</ref> * ''Doryssa consolidata'' (Bruguière, 1790)<ref name="Baker 1930"/> * ''Doryssa derivans'' Brot, 1874 * ''Doryssa geijskesi'' (Pain, 1956) * ''Doryssa gruneri'' (Jonas, 1844)<ref name="Baker 1930"/> * ''Doryssa hohenackeri'' (Philippi, 1851)<ref name="WoRMS 2015"/> * ''Doryssa kappleri'' (Vernhout, 1914)<ref>Abbott R. T. (1955). "Anatomy of the Venezuelan gastropod, ''Doryssa kappleri''". ''The Nautilus'' '''69''': [https://archive.org/stream/nautilus69amer#page/44/mode/2up 44]–46, [https://archive.org/stream/nautilus69amer#page/n58/mode/1up plate].</ref> * ''Doryssa lamarckiana'' (Brot, 1870)<ref name="Baker 1930"/> * ''Doryssa petechialis'' (Brot, 1860) * ''Doryssa schuppi'' (Ihering, 1902) * ''Doryssa transversa'' (Lea, 1850)

<gallery> File:Doryssa atra del Rio Ventuari, Amazonas - Venezuela 003.jpg|''Doryssa atra'' File:Doryssa hohenackery kappleri 004.jpg|''Doryssa hohenackeri'' File:Doryssa kappleri 000.jpg|''Doryssa kappleri'' </gallery>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Doryssa Category:Freshwater snails Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by Arthur Adams (zoologist) Category:Taxa named by Henry Adams (zoologist)