Beddomeia krybetes

Beddomeia krybetes 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 by Winston Ponder, G.A. Clark, Alison Miller and A Toluzzi.[2]

Beddomeia krybetes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Tateidae
Genus: Beddomeia
Species:
B. krybetes
Binomial name
Beddomeia krybetes
Ponder & Clark, 1993

This species is endemic to Tasmania, and known only from its type locality, where it is found in freshwater under large, stable rocks where the stream has a strong flow.[3]

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References

  1. Ponder, W.F. (1996). "Beddomeia krybetes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T2700A9469305. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T2700A9469305.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. WF Ponder; GA Clark; AC 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 [531]. doi:10.1071/IT9930501. ISSN 1445-5226. Wikidata Q117383672.
  3. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Beddomeia_krybetes


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