Fluvidona griffithsi is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Tateidae. This species is endemic to southern Queensland, Australia.[1]
| Fluvidona griffithsi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Tateidae |
| Genus: | Fluvidona |
| Species: | F. griffithsi
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| Binomial name | |
| Fluvidona griffithsi Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999
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Etymology
editFluvidona griffithsi is named after Owen Lee Griffiths, who found the first specimens of this species.
Description
editThis species is, with the possible exception of a single specimen found north of Kyogle, as of yet unidentified and most probably belonging to a distinct species, unique amongst known Australian hydrobiids in being able to aestivate and withstand drying. The type series were found in dry soil in a small, dry creek bed on the landward side of a small hill, in a small coastal rainforest remnant in Burleigh Head National Park, Queensland. Several days after collection they were placed in water, after which they soon emerged and crawled about actively.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Miller, A. C.; Ponder, W. F.; Clark, S. A. (1999). "Freshwater snails of the genera Fluvidona and Austropyrgus (Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, Australia". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 13 (3). CSIRO Publishing: 461–493. doi:10.1071/IT97011. ISSN 0818-0164. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
External links
edit- "Species Fluvidona griffithsi Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999". Australian Faunal Directory. 30 January 2012.
- "Fluvidona griffithsi Miller, Ponder & Clark, 1999". Atlas of Living Australia.
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