''Heterocyclus perroquini'' is a

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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, 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

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Tateidae Tateidae is a family of very small and minute aquatic snails with an operculum, gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.Bouchet, P. (2014). Tateidae Thiele, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.ma ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Heterocyclus perroquini Crosse, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1323927 on 2024-06-18

Distribution

This species is

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References

* Starmühlner, F. (1970). Die Mollusken der neukaledonischen Binnengewässer / Les mollusques des eaux douces et saumâtres de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cahiers de l'Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer, Série Hydrobiologie. 4 (3/4): 1-127.

External links

Crosse H. (1872). Diagnoses molluscorum Novae Caledonae incolarum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 20(2): 154-157
Tateidae Endemic fauna of New Caledonia Gastropods described in 1872 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Freshwater molluscs of Oceania {{Tateidae-stub