Species Potamopyrgus oscitans (Iredale, 1944)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Fluviorissoina oscitans Iredale, T. 1944. The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island. The Australian Zoologist 10: 299-334 [10 May 1944] [332].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C40607, Little Slope, Mt Gower, Lord Howe Is.
  Paralectotype(s) AM C118435 (2 specimens).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ponder, W.F. 1982. Hydrobiidae of Lord Howe Island (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Prosobranchia). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 89-159 [123].
• Fluviorissoina obesa Iredale, T. 1944. The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island. The Australian Zoologist 10: 299-334 [10 May 1944] [332].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C118425, Erskine Valley, Lord Howe Is.
  Paralectotype(s) AM C118426 (40+ specimens).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ponder, W.F. 1982. Hydrobiidae of Lord Howe Island (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Prosobranchia). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 89-159 [123].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ponder, W.F. 1982. Hydrobiidae of Lord Howe Island (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Prosobranchia). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 89-159 [120]

Generic Combinations

• Potamopyrgus oscitans (Iredale, 1944). —
  Ponder, W.F. 1982. Hydrobiidae of Lord Howe Island (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Prosobranchia). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 89-159 [120-125, figs 10-11, 47-48, 58-64, 105-106, 120]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from New Zealand.

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Lotic freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Near vertical faces of waterfalls.

General References

Ponder, W.F. 1982. Hydrobiidae of Lord Howe Island (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Prosobranchia). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 89-159 [120-125, figs 10-11, 47-48, 58-64, 105-106, 120]

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