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Hydrobiidae
New Zealand mud snailPotamopyrgus antipodarum
New Zealand mud snail
Potamopyrgus antipodarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Stimpson, 1865
Genera and species

See text. The New Zealand mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, sometimes previously known as Potamopyrgus jenkinsii, is a very small or minute Species of freshwater Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000 The class Gastropoda or the gastropods, also previously known as gasteropods, or univalves, and more commonly known as Snails Sorbeoconcha is a very large Taxonomic order of Snails (mostly sea snails with gills and often with an operculum) Rissooidea is a Superfamily of small and minute saltwater and freshwater Snails with an operculum.

Hydrobiidae is a large taxonomic family of very small or minute freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic operculate gastropod mollusks in the order Sorbeoconcha. Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification The word comes from the Greek, taxis (meaning 'order' 'arrangement' and, nomos In Biological classification, family ( Latin The word snail is a Common name that can be used for almost all members of the Molluscan class Gastropoda which have coiled shells in the The operculum, meaning little lid (plural opercula or operculums is a corneous or Calcareous structure which exists in some groups of marine freshwater and land An aquatic animal is an Animal which lives in water for most or all of the time The class Gastropoda or the gastropods, also previously known as gasteropods, or univalves, and more commonly known as Snails Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000 Sorbeoconcha is a very large Taxonomic order of Snails (mostly sea snails with gills and often with an operculum)

Subfamilies

The following subfamilies shave been recognized by the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).

Genera within the family Hydrobiidae

Peringia ulvae, syn. Hydrobia ulvae
Peringia ulvae, syn. Hydrobia ulvae

References

Tryonia is a Genus of mostly minute freshwater Snails with an operculum.
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