Austropyrgus foris
| Austropyrgus foris | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Austropyrgus |
| Species: | A. foris |
| Binomial name | |
| Austropyrgus foris (Ponder, Colgan, Clark, Miller & Terzis, 1994) | |
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Austropyrgus foris is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the Hydrobiidae family. This species is endemic to eastern Victoria, Australia. It is only known from a small stream at Cape Liptrap, near Waratah Bay.[1]
References
- 1 2 Clark, S. (2011). "Austropyrgus foris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
Further reading
- Clark, Stephanie A.; Miller, Alison C.; Ponder, Winston F. (2003). "Revision of the Snail Genus Austropyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae): A Morphostatic Radiation of Freshwater Gastropods in Southeastern Australia" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. The Australian Museum. Supplement 28: 1–109. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.28.2003.1377. ISBN 0-7347-2313-X. ISSN 0812-7387. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
External links
- "Species Austropyrgus foris (Ponder, Colgan, Clark, Miller & Terzis, 1994)". Australian Faunal Directory. 30 January 2012.
- "Austropyrgus foris (Ponder, Colgan, Clark, Miller & Terzis, 1994)". Atlas of Living Australia.
See also
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