original description
Delicado, D.; Arconada, B.; Aguado, A.; Ramos, M. A. (2019). Multilocus phylogeny, species delimitation and biogeography of Iberian valvatiform springsnails (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae), with the description of a new genus. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zly093 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The genus name refers to Deganta, the goddess of water in the prehistoric mythology of the Astures, Hispano-Celtic inhabitants of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula who believed in the purifying character of water [details]
Nomenclature Work published online 13 Feb 2019; but act not registered in Zoobank; name available from the print version only [details]
Taxonomy The phylogenetic position of this genus within this subfamily is still uncertain [details]