Angrobia
Encyclopedia
Angrobia is a genus of minute freshwater
snail
s with an operculum
, aquatic
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family Hydrobiidae
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Note: All the species in this genus now appear to have been transferred to the genus Austropyrgus.
Freshwater
Fresh water is naturally occurring water on the Earth's surface in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, bogs, ponds, lakes, rivers and streams, and underground as groundwater in aquifers and underground streams. Fresh water is generally characterized by having low concentrations of dissolved salts and...
snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s with an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in the family Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae, common name mud snails, is a large cosmopolitan taxonomic family of very small freshwater snails and brackish water snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.- Distribution :...
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Note: All the species in this genus now appear to have been transferred to the genus Austropyrgus.
Species
This genus includes the following species:- Angrobia anodontaAngrobia anodontaFluvidona anodonta is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.This species is endemic to Australia....
- †Angrobia dulvertonensisAngrobia dulvertonensis†Angrobia dulvertonensis was a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species was endemic to Australia....
- Angrobia dyerianaAngrobia dyerianaAngrobia dyeriana is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Australia....
- Angrobia grampianensisAngrobia grampianensisAngrobia grampianensis is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Australia....
- Angrobia petterdiAngrobia petterdiAngrobia petterdi is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Australia....
- Angrobia simsonianaAngrobia simsonianaAngrobia simsoniana is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Australia....