Animalia > Mollusca > Gastropoda > Littorinimorpha > Tateidae > Potamopyrgus > Potamopyrgus antipodarumPotamopyrgus antipodarum (New Zealand mud snail)Synonyms: Amnicola antipodanum; Amnicola antipodarum (homotypic); Amnicola badia; Amnicola corolla; Amnicola egena; Amnicola gracilis; Amnicola zelandiae; Bithinia legrandi; Bithinia tasmanica; Bithinia unicarinata; Bythinella exigua; Bythinella pattisoni; Hydrobia antipodum; Hydrobia fischeri (heterotypic); Hydrobia jenkinsi; Hydrobia jenkinsi var. aculeata; Hydrobia reevei (heterotypic); Hydrobia spelaea; Hydrobia ventrosa carinata; Hydrobia ventrosa var. carinata; Melania corolla; Paludestrina cumingiana; Paludestrina jenkinsi; Paludestrina jenkinsi var. aculeata; Paludestrina legrandiana; Paludestrina salleana; Paludestrina wisemaniana; Potamopyrgus alexenkoae; Potamopyrgus badia; Potamopyrgus corolla; Potamopyrgus jenkinsi; Potamopyrgus jenkinsi aculeata; Potamopyrgus jenkinsi septentrionalis; Potamopyrgus jenkinsi var. aculeata; Potamopyrgus polistchuki; Potamopyrgus weltneri; Pseudamnicola lanceolata; Pyrgula grossui; Rissoa castanea; Rissoa vana; Rissoina fuscozona; Rissoina vana The New Zealand mudsnail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) sometimes previously known as Potamopyrgus jenkinsi, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. It is an invasive species in many countries, where populations of the snail can reach phenomenal densities. |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
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Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Upper Danube |
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 2The diet of brown teal (Anas chlorotis), Suzanne J. Moore, Phil F. Battley, Ian M. Henderson and Colin J. Webb, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (2006) 30(3): 397-403 ♦ 3Donald J. Jellyman (1989): Diet of two species of freshwater eel (Anguilla spp.) in Lake Pounui, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 23:1, 1-10 ♦ 4Foods of New Zealand dabchick (Poliocephalus rufopectus) and New Zealand scaup (Aythya novaeseelandiae), MICHAEL WAKELIN, Notornis, 2004, Vol. 51: 242-245 ♦ 5G. A. Eldon (1979): Food of the Canterbury mudfish, Neochanna burrowsius (Salmoniformes: Galaxiidae), New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 13:2, 255-261 ♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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