Australian freshwater limpet

Australian freshwater limpet
Shell of Ancylastrum cumingianus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Ancylastrum
Species: A. cumingianus
Binomial name
Ancylastrum cumingianus
(Bourguignat, 1853)

The Australian freshwater limpet or Tasmanian freshwater limpet, scientific name Ancylastrum cumingianus, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail or freshwater limpet, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Planorbidae. This species is endemic to Australia.

References

  1. ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Ancylastrum cumingianus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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