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Australian freshwater limpet

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(Redirected from Ancylastrum cumingianus) Species of gastropod

Australian freshwater limpet
Shell of Ancylastrum cumingianus
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Ancylastrum
Species: A. cumingianus
Binomial name
Ancylastrum cumingianus
(Bourguignat, 1853)

The Australian freshwater limpet or Tasmanian freshwater limpet, scientific name Ancylastrum cumingianus, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail or freshwater limpet, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Planorbidae. This species is endemic to freshwater lakes in the Central Plateau of Tasmania.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Ancylastrum cumingianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T1261A3365562. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T1261A3365562.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. "Ancylastrum cumingianus - fact sheet". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
Taxon identifiers
Ancylastrum cumingianus


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