# Mexinauta

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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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|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
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'''''Mexinauta''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing [freshwater snail](/source/freshwater_snail)s, [aquatic](/source/Aquatic_animal) [pulmonate](/source/pulmonate) [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the subfamily Aplexinae of the family [Physidae](/source/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](/source/Mexinauta_aurantius)'' <small>(Carpenter, 1857)</small>
* ''[Mexinauta gracilentus](/source/Mexinauta_gracilentus)'' <small>(P. Fischer & Crosse, 1886)</small>
* ''[Mexinauta impluviatus](/source/Mexinauta_impluviatus)'' <small>(Morelet, 1849)</small>
* ''[Mexinauta laetus](/source/Mexinauta_laetus)'' <small>(E. von Martens, 1898)</small>
* ''[Mexinauta nicaraguanus](/source/Mexinauta_nicaraguanus)'' <small>(Morelet, 1851)</small>
* ''[Mexinauta nitens](/source/Mexinauta_nitens)'' <small>(Philippi, 1841)</small>
* ''[Mexinauta peruvianus](/source/Mexinauta_peruvianus)'' <small>(Gray, 1828)</small>
* ''[Mexinauta princeps](/source/Mexinauta_princeps)'' <small>(Phillips, 1846)</small>
;Synonyms:
* ''Mexinauta aurantia'' <small>(Carpenter, 1857)</small>: synonym of ''[Mexinauta aurantius](/source/Mexinauta_aurantius)'' <small>(Carpenter, 1857)</small> (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet; Mexinauta is masculine")

==References==
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==External links==
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* [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

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