Tomichia cawstoni
Tomichia cawstoni | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
Subfamily: | Pomatiopsinae |
Genus: | Tomichia |
Species: | T. cawstoni |
Binomial name | |
Tomichia cawstoni Connolly, 1939 | |
Tomichia cawstoni is a species of very small freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Distribution
This species is endemic to South Africa.[1] The type locality is Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.[2]
Description
The width of the shell is 2.5 mm.; the height of the shell is 4.6 mm.[2]
Ecology
References
- 1 2 3 Kristensen T. K., Stensgaard A-S. & Appleton C. (2007). Tomichia cawstoni. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 30 May 2011.
- 1 2 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
External links
- Davis G. M. (1981). "Different modes of evolution and adaptive radiation in the Pomatiopsidae (Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda)". Malacologia 21: 209-262.
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