Gabbiella stanleyi

Gabbiella stanleyi
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Gabbiella
Species: G. stanleyi
Binomial name
Gabbiella stanleyi
(E. A. Smith, 1877)[2]
Synonyms

Bythinia stanleyi E. A. Smith, 1877

Gabbiella stanleyi is a species of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.

The specific name stanleyi is in honor of explorer Henry Morton Stanley.[2]

This species is endemic to Malawi.[1] Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Ngereza, C., Lange, C.N., Kaunda, E., Magombo, Z., Kahwa, D. & Mailosi, A. 2004. Gabbiella stanleyi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ^ a b Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species from Mozambique". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877: 712-722. Page 717, Plate 75, figures 21-22.