Pseudamnicola macrostoma | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Hydrobiidae |
Genus: | Pseudamnicola |
Species: | P. macrostoma |
Binomial name | |
Pseudamnicola macrostoma (Küster, 1853) | |
Synonyms | |
Paludina macrostomaKüster, 1853 [2] |
Pseudamnicola macrostoma is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. [1] [2]
Two subspecies are recognised, the nominotypical P. m.subsp.macrostoma and P. m.subsp.negropontina, the latter being treated as a distinct species (Pseudamnicola negropontina) by some authors. [3] [4]
P. macrostoma is endemic to Greece. [1] [2] The species was originally described from a number of springs in the vicinity of Athens but was later also recorded from Evvia as well as several islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas. [1] [4]