Potadoma buttikoferi
| Potadoma buttikoferi | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Potadoma |
| Species: | P. buttikoferi |
| Binomial name | |
| Potadoma buttikoferi (Schepman, 1888)[2] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
|
Melania buttikoferi Schepman, 1888 | |
Potadoma buttikoferi is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in:
The type locality is "on rocks in the St. Paul's River near Bavia", Liberia.[2]
References
- 1 2 Kristensen T. K. & Stensgaard A-S. (2010). "Potadoma buttikoferi". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 4 November 2012.
- 1 2 Schepman M. M. (1888). "Zoological researches in Liberia. List of Mollusca, with descriptions of new species". Notes from the Leyden Museum 10: 245-252, page 249, plate 10, figure 5.
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