Hemistomia shostakovichi

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

Hemistomia shostakovichi 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 only known from one small seepage behind a micro-dam in a dry valley near Voh.[1]

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