''Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni'' is a species of
freshwater gastropod
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, an aquatic
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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within the family
Acochlidiidae
Acochlidiidae are a taxonomic family of shell-less freshwater gastropods (one of them ''Palliohedyle weberi'' lives in brackish water),Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Op ...
.
The
specific name ''bayerfehlmanni'' is in honour of
Frederick Merkle Bayer and of
Herman Adair Fehlmann
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, who made the research of ''Acochlidium'' on Palau.
Type specimen
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are stored in
Natural History Museum, Vienna
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and in
Natural History Museum of Basel
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.
Distribution
The
type locality is
Arakitoach River,
Babelthuap
Babeldaob (also Babelthuap) is the largest island in the island nation of the Palau, Republic of Palau. It is in the western Caroline Islands, and the second largest island (after Guam) in the Micronesia region of Oceania. Palau's capital, Ngerul ...
,
Palau Islands
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.
Description
''Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni'' has no shell. The body length is 25 mm.
It has two pairs of tentacles.
It is a
hermaphrodite
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.
References
External links
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Acochlidiidae
Gastropods described in 1980