''Hemistomia xaracuu'' is a species of minute

freshwater snail Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...

with an operculum, an aquatic

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

micromollusc A micromollusk is 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 r ...

in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to

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, where it is only known from a spring in a creek bed near Ouaméni in the

Bouloupari Boulouparis is a commune in the South Province of New Caledonia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Geography Climate Boulouparis has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen climate classification ''Aw'') closely bordering on a ...

basin.

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Hemistomia Endemic fauna of New Caledonia Gastropods described in 1998 Freshwater molluscs of Oceania {{Hydrobiidae-stub

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