Lymnaea tomentosa hamiltoni

Lymnaea tomentosa hamiltoni
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Lymnaeoidea
Family: Lymnaeidae
Subfamily: Lymnaeinae
Genus: Lymnaea
Species: L. tomentosa
Subspecies: L. tomentosa hamiltoni
Trinomial name
Lymnaea tomentosa hamiltoni
Dell, 1956
Synonyms

Limnaea alfredi hamiltoni Dell, 1956
Limnaea atomentosa Climo & Pullan, 1972

Lymnaea tomentosa hamiltoni is an extinct subspecies of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

This species was endemic to New Zealand.[1] The shells of these snails were found in lake marls in the southern part of the South Island.

References

  1. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1