Fluvidona orphana
| Fluvidona orphana | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Fluvidona |
| Species: | F. orphana |
| Binomial name | |
| Fluvidona orphana Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999 | |
Fluvidona orphana is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.
Etymology
The specific epithet orphana is derived from the Greek word orphanos, meaning orphan, and refers to the probable extinction of any related species in the surrounding areas because of land clearing for urban development.[1]
Distribution and habitat
This species is endemic to northern New South Wales, Australia. It is known only from Sea Acres Reserve, Port Macquarie, where it lives in a small stream in a patch of remnant coastal rainforest. It differs from all other Fluvidona species in its habit, being found crawling on palm fronds, etc., in the creek and is also relatively abundant.[1]
References
- 1 2 Miller, A. C.; Ponder, W. F.; Clark, S. A. (1999). "Freshwater snails of the genera Fluvidona and Austropyrgus (Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, Australia". Invertebrate taxonomy (CSIRO Publishing) 13 (3): 461–493. doi:10.1071/IT97011. ISSN 0818-0164. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
External links
- "Species Fluvidona orphana Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999". Australian Faunal Directory. 30 January 2012.
- "Fluvidona orphana Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999". Atlas of Living Australia.
See also
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