Fluvidona orphana

Fluvidona orphana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Tateidae
Genus: Fluvidona
Species:
F. orphana
Binomial name
Fluvidona orphana
Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999

Fluvidona orphana is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Tateidae.

Etymology

The specific epithet orphana is derived from the Greek word orphanos, meaning orphan, and refers to the probable extinction of any related species in the surrounding areas because of land clearing for urban development.[1]

Distribution and habitat

This species is endemic to northern New South Wales, Australia. It is known only from Sea Acres Reserve, Port Macquarie, where it lives in a small stream in a patch of remnant coastal rainforest. It differs from all other Fluvidona species in its habit, being found crawling on palm fronds, etc., in the creek and is also relatively abundant.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Miller, A. C.; Ponder, W. F.; Clark, S. A. (1999). "Freshwater snails of the genera Fluvidona and Austropyrgus (Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, Australia". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 13 (3). CSIRO Publishing: 461–493. doi:10.1071/IT97011. ISSN 0818-0164. Retrieved 20 February 2014.