Jardinella

Jardinella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Jardinella
Iredale & Whitley, 1938[1]

Jardinella is a genus of small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

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Distribution

The genus is Jardinella is endemic to Queensland, Australia.[2] There live in four springs "supegroups" in the Great Artesian Basin: Springsure, Barcaldine, Springvale and Eulo.[2] Jardinella tumorosa lives in Little Mulgrave River.[2]

Species

There is 12 species of Jardinella listed in the 2011 IUCN Red List.[3]

Species within the genus Jardinella include:

References

  1. ^ Iredale T. & Whitley G. P. (1938). S. Aust. Nat. 18: 67.
  2. ^ a b c Perez K. E., Ponder W. F., Colgan D. J., Clark S. A. & Lydeard C. (2005). "Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of spring-associated hydrobiid snails of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 545-556. PubMed, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.020, PDF.
  3. ^ IUCN (2011). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 13 July 2011.

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