Hauffenia lucidula
Hauffenia lucidula (also known as Horatia lucidula) is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. [2]
| Hauffenia lucidula | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Hauffenia |
| Species: | H. lucidula |
| Binomial name | |
| Hauffenia lucidula (Angelov, 1967) | |
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Distribution
This species is endemic to Bulgaria, where it is known from one locality in South Dobrudza on the coast of the Black Sea. According to Bodon (pers. comm. 2009), this species has not been found since 1960, and therefore the current status is uncertain.[1]
References
- IUCN Red List info
- MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Hauffenia lucidula (Angelov, 1967). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724382 on 2023-06-14
- Angelov, A. (1967). Horatia (Hauffenia) lucidulus n. sp., ein neuer Vertreter der Molluskenfauna Bulgariens Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 96(3/6): 145-148
- Georgiev D. (2013) Catalogue of the stygobiotic and troglophilous freshwater snails (Gastropoda: Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae) of Bulgaria with descriptions of five new species. Ruthenica 23(1): 59-67.
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