Australian freshwater limpet

The Australian freshwater limpet or Tasmanian freshwater limpet, scientific name Ancylastrum cumingianus, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail or freshwater limpet, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Planorbidae. This species is endemic to freshwater lakes in the Central Plateau of Tasmania[2].

Australian freshwater limpet
Shell of Ancylastrum cumingianus

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Planorboidea
Family:
Planorbidae
Genus:
Ancylastrum
Species:
A. cumingianus
Binomial name
Ancylastrum cumingianus
(Bourguignat, 1853)

References
  1. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Ancylastrum cumingianus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  2. "Ancylastrum cumingianus - fact sheet". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 2018-10-31.


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