Benedictia is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Lithoglyphidae.
Benedictia is the type genus of the subfamily Benedictiinae.
Distribution The genus Benedictia is endemic to Lake Baikal.
Species Species within the genus Benedictia include: Benedictia baicalensis (Gerstfeldt, 1859). Benedictia distinguenda Lindholm, 1924 Benedictia distinguenda lamuana Sitnikova, 1987 Benedictia fragilis W. Dybowski, 1875 - type species Benedictia kotyensis Matiokin, Dzuban & Sitnikova, 1988 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. Benedictia limnaeoides (Schrenck, 1867) Benedictia limnaeoides ongurensis Kozhov, 1936 Benedictia limnaeoides litoralis Kozhov, 1936 Benedictia maxima (W. Dybowski, 1875) Benedictia maxima marisminus Sitnikova, 1987 Benedictia nana Beckman & Starobogatov, 1975 Benedictia pulchella Sitnikova, 1987 Benedictia pulchella sarmensis Sitnikova, 1987 Benedictia pumyla (Lindholm, 1924) Benedictia shadini Beckman & Starobogatov, 1975
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