Hemistomia xaracuu

Hemistomia xaracuu
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Hemistomia
Species: H. xaracuu
Binomial name
Hemistomia xaracuu
Haase & Bouchet, 1998

Hemistomia xaracuu is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia, where it is only known from a spring in a creek bed near Ouaméni in the Bouloupari basin.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, P. (2011). "Hemistomia xaracuu". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 16 July 2014.

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