Pseudamnicola macrostoma

Pseudamnicola macrostoma
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Genus:	Pseudamnicola
Species:	P. macrostoma
Binomial name
Pseudamnicola macrostoma (Küster, 1853)
Synonyms
Paludina macrostoma Küster, 1853[2]

Pseudamnicola macrostoma is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.^[1][2]

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognised, the nominotypical P. m. subsp. macrostoma and P. m. subsp. negropontina, the latter being treated as a distinct species (Pseudamnicola negropontina) by some authors.^[3][4]

Geographic distribution

P. macrostoma is endemic to Greece.^[1][2] The species was originally described from a number of springs in the vicinity of Athens but was later also recorded from Evvia as well as several islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas.^[1][4]

References

1. Falniowski, A.; Radea, K. (2011). "Pseudamnicola macrostoma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T155493A4786741. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T155493A4786741.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. "Taxon Details: Pseudamnicola (Pseudamnicola) macrostoma (Kuster 1853)". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
3. Bank, R. (July 24, 2011). "Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Greece" (PDF). Fauna Europaea Project. Natural History Museum of Bern. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
4. Radea, C.; Parmakelis, A.; Papadogiannis, V.; Charou, V. & Triantis, K. A. (2013). "The hydrobioid freshwater gastropods (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) of Greece: new records, taxonomic re-assessments using DNA sequence data and an update of the IUCN Red List Categories". ZooKeys (350). Pensoft Publishers: 1–20. doi:10.3897/zookeys.350.6001. PMC 3837496. PMID 24294081.