Beddomeia mesibovi

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Beddomeia mesibovi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Tateidae
Genus: Beddomeia
Species:
B. mesibovi
Binomial name
Beddomeia mesibovi
Ponder & Clark, 1993
Beddomeia mesibovi
Holotype (AM C165847)site: near Kanunnah Bridge, Tasmania

Beddomeia mesibovi is a species of very small freshwater snail that has a gill and an operculum, an aquatic operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Tateidae. It was first described in 1993. [2] [3]

This species is endemic to Tasmania, where it is known only from its type locality. [2]

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References

  1. Clark, S. (2011). "Beddomeia mesibovi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011: e.T2703A9469632. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T2703A9469632.en . Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Species Beddomeia mesibovi Ponder & Clark, 1993". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
  3. Winston Ponder; G.A. Clark; Alison Miller; A. Toluzzi (1993). "On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria: a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 7 (3): 501-750 [637]. doi:10.1071/IT9930501. ISSN   1445-5226. Wikidata   Q117383672.