Trochidrobia

Trochidrobia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Tateidae
Genus: Trochidrobia
Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989[1]
Type species
Trochidrobia punicea Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989
Species

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Trochidrobia is a genus of very small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Tateidae.[2]

The genus Trochidrobia is endemic to the Lake Eyre supergroup,[3] Australia.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Trochidrobia include:

References

  1. 1 2 Ponder W., Hershler R. & Jenkins B. (1989). "An endemic radiation of hydrobiid snails from artesian springs in northern South Australia: their taxonomy, physiology, distribution and anatomy". Malacologia 31(1): 1–140, p 59.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Trochidrobia Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989. World Register of Marine Species. Accessed 19 February 2015
  3. 1 2 Perez, K. E.; Ponder, W. F.; Colgan, D. J.; Clark, S. A.; Lydeard, C. (2005). "Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of spring-associated hydrobiid snails of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34 (3): 545–556. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.020. PMID 15683928. PDF.


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