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. 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
Species Mexinauta aurantius (Carpenter, 1857) Mexinauta gracilentus (P. Fischer & Crosse, 1886) Mexinauta impluviatus (Morelet, 1849) Mexinauta laetus (E. von Martens, 1898) Mexinauta nicaraguanus (Morelet, 1851) Mexinauta nitens (Philippi, 1841) Mexinauta peruvianus (Gray, 1828) Mexinauta princeps (Phillips, 1846) Synonyms Mexinauta aurantia (Carpenter, 1857): synonym of Mexinauta aurantius (Carpenter, 1857) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet; Mexinauta is masculine")
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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)