Lymnaea tomentosa hamiltoni

Lymnaea tomentosa hamiltoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Lymnaeidae
Subfamily: Lymnaeinae
Genus: Lymnaea
Species: L. tomentosa
Subspecies: L. tomentosa hamiltoni
Trinomial name
Lymnaea tomentosa hamiltoni
Dell, 1956
Synonyms

Limnaea alfredi hamiltoni Dell, 1956
Limnaea atomentosa Climo & Pullan, 1972

Lymnaea tomentosa hamiltoni is an extinct subspecies of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

This species was endemic to New Zealand.[1] The shells of these snails were found in lake marls in the southern part of the South Island.

References

  1. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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