Edgbastonia alanwillsi
| Edgbastonia alanwillsi | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Tateinae |
| Genus: | Edgbastonia |
| Species: | E. alanwillsi |
| Binomial name | |
| Edgbastonia alanwillsi Ponder, Wilke, Zhang, Golding, Fukuda & Mason, 2008[1][2] | |
Edgbastonia alanwillsi is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. It is currently the sole species within the genus Edgbastonia.
E. alanwillsi is endemic to western Queensland, Australia. It is only found in a small group of springs in the Edgbaston Reserve near Aramac, where it is assumed to be relictual.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ "Edgbastonia alanwillsi". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- ↑ "Edgbastonia alanwillsi". UniProt. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
- ↑ Ponder, W. F.; Wilke, T.; Zhang, W.-H.; Golding, R. E.; Fukuda, H. & Mason, R. A. B. (2008). "Edgbastonia alanwillsi n. gen & n. sp. (Tateinae: Hydrobiidae s.l.: Rissooidea: Caenogastropoda); a snail from an artesian spring group in western Queensland, Australia, convergent with some Asian Amnicolidae". Molluscan Research. 28 (2): 89–106.
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