{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Mexinauta impluviatus (MNHN-IM-2000-2626) 001.jpeg |image_caption = Shell of ''Mexinauta impluviatus''(syntype at MNHN, Paris) |taxon = Mexinauta |authority = D. W. Taylor, 2003 |type_species= ''Physa nitens'' <small>Philippi, 1841</small> |synonyms= |display_parents= 3 }}
'''''Mexinauta''''' is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Aplexinae of the family Physidae.<ref name="WoRMS"> MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mexinauta D. W. Taylor, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057350 on 2021-07-16</ref>
==Species== * ''Mexinauta aurantius'' <small>(Carpenter, 1857)</small> * ''Mexinauta gracilentus'' <small>(P. Fischer & Crosse, 1886)</small> * ''Mexinauta impluviatus'' <small>(Morelet, 1849)</small> * ''Mexinauta laetus'' <small>(E. von Martens, 1898)</small> * ''Mexinauta nicaraguanus'' <small>(Morelet, 1851)</small> * ''Mexinauta nitens'' <small>(Philippi, 1841)</small> * ''Mexinauta peruvianus'' <small>(Gray, 1828)</small> * ''Mexinauta princeps'' <small>(Phillips, 1846)</small> ;Synonyms: * ''Mexinauta aurantia'' <small>(Carpenter, 1857)</small>: synonym of ''Mexinauta aurantius'' <small>(Carpenter, 1857)</small> (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet; Mexinauta is masculine")
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==External links== * {{Commonscat-inline}} * [https://tropicalstudies.org/rbt/attachments/suppls/sup51-1%20Physidae/Physidae%20Information.pdf Taylor, D. W. (2003). Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); biogeography, classification, morphology. Revista de Biología Tropical. 51(Suppl. 1): 1-263 (includes a Catalog of species, pp. 197-263)]
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Category:Physidae