title: Physa acuta Draparnaud, 1805 (Gastropoda: Physidae): a study of topotypic specimens.
abstract: A description is given of Physa acuta Draparnaud, 1805, based on topotypic specimens from the Garonne river basin, and additional samples from the environs of the French cities of Montpellier and Perpignan. It proved indistinguishable, in shell and anatomy, from topotypic Physa cubensis Pfeiffer, 1839, thus leading the authors to admit the synonymy of the two nominal species under the older name, P. acuta.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Malacologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21045-900, Brasil. paraense@ioc.fiocruz.br
authors.forename: W Lobato
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Paraense
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Pointier
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D012908:Snails / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification; D013045:Species Specificity