Oncomelania minima

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Oncomelania minima
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Oncomelania minima
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Genus: Oncomelania
Species:
O. minima
Binomial name
Oncomelania minima
P. Bartsch, 1936

Oncomelania minima is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae. [1]

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Distribution

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distribution of Oncomelania minima

This species occurs in Ishikawa Prefecture and in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. [1]

It is Vulnerable species in Japan. [2]

Ecology

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Photo of two Oncomelania minima in a mountain streamlet.

Oncomelania minima is a freshwater species which inhabits mountain streamlets. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-11-118 .
  2. ↑ (in Japanese) "ナタネミズツボ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
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