Beddomeia tumida: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Tateidae
- Genus
- Beddomeia
- Species
- Beddomeia tumida
- Scientific Name
- Beddomeia tumida
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Beddomeia tumida
Beddomeia tumida is a species of very small (4 4 mm (0.16 in)) freshwater snail that has a gill and an operculum. It is an aquatic operculate gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae, and is endemic to Australia.
It had not been spotted for 120 years and was listed by the IUCN as "critically endangered but possibly extinct", when in late 2021 one was found by researchers in yingina/Great Lake in the Central Plateau of Tasmania. A survey found 15 further snails.
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Sibling Taxa
- Beddomeia angulata
- Beddomeia averni
- Beddomeia bellii
- Beddomeia bowryensis
- Beddomeia briansmithi
- Beddomeia camensis
- Beddomeia capensis
- Beddomeia fallax
- Beddomeia forthensis
- Beddomeia franklandensis
- Beddomeia fromensis
- Beddomeia fultoni
- Beddomeia gibba
- Beddomeia hallae
- Beddomeia hullii
- Beddomeia inflata
- Beddomeia kershawi
- Beddomeia kessneri
- Beddomeia krybetes
- Beddomeia launcestonensis
- Beddomeia lodderae
- Beddomeia mesibovi
- Beddomeia minima
- Beddomeia paludinella
- Beddomeia petterdi
- Beddomeia phasianella
- Beddomeia protuberata
- Beddomeia ronaldi
- Beddomeia salmonis
- Beddomeia tasmanica
- Beddomeia topsiae
- Beddomeia trochiformis
- Beddomeia tumida
- Beddomeia turnerae
- Beddomeia waterhouseae
- Beddomeia wilmotensis
- Beddomeia wiseae
- Beddomeia zeehanensis