Australian freshwater limpet

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Australian freshwater limpet
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.239025 - Ancylastrum cumingianus (Bourguignat, 1853) - Planorbidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Shell of Ancylastrum cumingianus

Critically Endangered (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
A. cumingianus
Binomial name
Ancylastrum cumingianus
(Bourguignat, 1853)

The Australian freshwater limpet or Tasmanian freshwater limpet, scientific name Ancylastrum cumingianus, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail or freshwater limpet, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Planorbidae. This species is endemic to freshwater lakes in the Central Plateau of Tasmania.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Ancylastrum cumingianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T1261A3365562. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T1261A3365562.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Ancylastrum cumingianus - fact sheet". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 2018-10-31.

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