Oncomelania minima
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
Genus: | Oncomelania |
Species: | O. minima
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Binomial name | |
Oncomelania minima P. Bartsch, 1936
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Oncomelania minima is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.[1]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in Ishikawa Prefecture and in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.[1]
It is Vulnerable species in Japan.[2]
Ecology
[edit]Oncomelania minima is a freshwater species which inhabits mountain streamlets.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c 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.