Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni

Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni
dorsal view of Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Acochlidiacea
clade Hedylopsacea[1]
Family: Acochlidiidae
Genus: Acochlidium
Species: A. bayerfehlmanni
Binomial name
Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni
Wawra, 1980[2]

Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni is a species of freshwater gastropod, an aquatic gastropod mollusk within the family Acochlidiidae.

The specific name bayerfehlmanni is in honour of Frederick Merkle Bayer and of Herman Adair Fehlmann, who made the research of Acochlidium on Palau.[2] Type specimen are stored in Natural History Museum, Vienna and in Natural History Museum of Basel.[2]

Distribution

The type locality is Arakitoach River, Babelthuap, Palau Islands.[2]

Description

Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni has no shell. The body length is 25 mm.[2] It has two pairs of tentacles.[2]

It is a hermaphrodite.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wawra E. (1980). "Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni spec. nov., (Gastropoda : Opishobranchia : Acochlidiacea) from Palau Islands". The Veliger 22(3): 215-218.
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