Oncomelania minima
| Oncomelania minima | |
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| Oncomelania minima | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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.[1]
Distribution
This species occurs in Ishikawa Prefecture and in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.[1]
It is Vulnerable species in Japan.[2]
Ecology
Oncomelania minima is a freshwater species which inhabits mountain streamlets.[1]
References
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ (in Japanese) "ナタネミズツボ". 日本のレッドデータ検索システム [Japanese Red List Data Book], accessed 17 July 2011.