Austropyrgus centralia

Austropyrgus centralia
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Genus:	Austropyrgus
Species:	A. centralia
Binomial name
Austropyrgus centralia (Ponder, Colgan, Terzis, Clark & Miller, 1996)

Austropyrgus centralia is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the Hydrobiidae family. This species is endemic to northern South Australia. It is only known from a few small seeps and the shallow lower outflow of one larger spring in Dalhousie Springs, Lake Eyre basin.[1]

See also

• List of non-marine molluscs of Australia

References

1. Clark, S. (2011). "Austropyrgus centralia". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. IUCN: e.T188998A8672569. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T188998A8672569.en. Retrieved 10 January 2018.

Further reading

• Clark, Stephanie A.; Miller, Alison C.; Ponder, Winston F. (2003). "Revision of the Snail Genus Austropyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae): A Morphostatic Radiation of Freshwater Gastropods in Southeastern Australia" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. Supplement 28. The Australian Museum: 1–109. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.28.2003.1377. ISBN 0-7347-2313-X. ISSN 0812-7387. Retrieved 2 July 2014.

External links

• "Species Austropyrgus centralia (Ponder, Colgan, Terzis, Clark & Miller, 1996)". Australian Faunal Directory. 30 January 2012.
• "Austropyrgus centralia (Ponder, Colgan, Terzis, Clark & Miller, 1996)". Atlas of Living Australia.