Oncomelania minima
| Oncomelania minima | |
|---|---|
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| Oncomelania minima | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Pomatiopsinae |
| Genus: | Oncomelania |
| Species: | O. minima |
| Binomial name | |
| Oncomelania minima P. Bartsch, 1936 | |
Oncomelania minima is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[1]
Distribution
distribution of Oncomelania minima
This species occurs in Ishikawa Prefecture and in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.[1]
It is Vulnerable species in Japan.[2]
Ecology
Photo of two Oncomelania minima in a mountain streamlet.
Oncomelania minima is a freshwater species which inhabits mountain streamlets.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
- ↑ (in Japanese) "ナタネミズツボ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.
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