Austropyrgus bunyaensis

Austropyrgus bunyaensis is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the Hydrobiidae family. This species is endemic to southeastern Queensland, Australia. It is only known from small streams near the top of Mount Mowbullan, Bunya Mountains.

Austropyrgus bunyaensis
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Genus:	Austropyrgus
Species:	A. bunyaensis
Binomial name
Austropyrgus bunyaensis Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999

See also

• List of non-marine molluscs of Australia

Further reading

• Clark, Stephanie A.; Miller, Alison C.; Ponder, Winston F. (2003). "Revision of the Snail Genus Austropyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae): A Morphostatic Radiation of Freshwater Gastropods in Southeastern Australia" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. Supplement 28. The Australian Museum: 1–109. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.28.2003.1377. ISBN 0-7347-2313-X. ISSN 0812-7387. Retrieved 2 July 2014.

External links

• "Species Austropyrgus bunyaensis Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999". Australian Faunal Directory. 30 January 2012.
• "Austropyrgus bunyaensis Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999". Atlas of Living Australia.