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Oncomelania minima

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Species of gastropod

Oncomelania minima
Oncomelania minima
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Genus: Oncomelania
Species: O. minima
Binomial name
Oncomelania minima
P. Bartsch, 1936

Oncomelania minima is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Distribution

distribution of Oncomelania minima

This species occurs in Ishikawa Prefecture and in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

It is Vulnerable species in Japan.

Ecology

Photo of two Oncomelania minima in a mountain streamlet.

Oncomelania minima is a freshwater species which inhabits mountain streamlets.

References

  1. ^ Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.
  2. (in Japanese) "ナタネミズツボ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム , accessed 17 July 2011.
Taxon identifiers
Oncomelania minima


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