Hemistomia gorotitei

Hemistomia gorotitei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Hemistomia
Species: H. gorotitei
Binomial name
Hemistomia gorotitei
Haase & Bouchet, 1998

Hemistomia gorotitei is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia, where it is currently only known from a few specimens collected from a headwater in the Poya drainage.[1]

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