CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Gastropoda (class) » Littorinimorpha (order) » Tateidae (family)

CAAB Code:	24 111066 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
Family:	24 111 Tateidae (gastropods) - show full list
Common Name:	[a hydrobiid snail]
Organism Type:	a hydrobiid snail
Synonyms:	Potamopyrgus pattisoni Potamopyrgus jenkinsi
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Freshwater Estuarine
Parent Codes:	24 111914 Potamopyrgus spp.

Taxon Notes:

This species is native to New Zealand; it has been accidentally introduced to many other parts of the world, including Australia.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:9222dd09-7aef-493d-9fd3-2b9ba737436b Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
MoV	3787
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:147123 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Smith, B.J., 1992. Non-marine Mollusca. In: Houston, W.W.K., Editor, Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 8: 1-398. Australian Government Printing Service, Canberra 405pp. Now Vol. 17.1
Scientific Name verified against:	Haase, M., 2008. The radiation of hydrobiid gastropods in New Zealand: a revision including the description of new species based on morphology and mtDNA sequence information., Systematics and Biodiversity, Vol. 6(1): 99-159.

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