''Jardinella'' is a

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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 ...

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Distribution

The genus ''Jardinella'' is endemic to

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. ''Jardinella'' species live in four spring "supergroups" in the

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Jardinella tumorosa ''Jardinella tumorosa'' is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Tateidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Jardinella tumorosa Ponder, 1991. Accessed through ...

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Species

Species within the genus ''Jardinella'' include: *'' Jardinella thaanumi'' (

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Jardinella tullyensis ''Jardinella tullyensis'' is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Tateidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Jardinella tullyensis Ponder, 1991. Accessed thro ...

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'' Ponder, 1991 ;Species brought into synonymy: *''Jardinella acuminata'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Edgbastonia acuminata'' (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) *''Jardinella carnarvonensis'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of ''

Carnarvoncochlea carnarvonensis ''Carnarvoncochlea carnarvonensis'' is a species of small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Tateidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Carnarvoncochlea carnarvonensis (Ponder & Clark, 1990). Accessed through: Wor ...

'' (Ponder & Clark, 1990) (basionym) *''Jardinella colmani'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Edgbastonia colmani'' (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) *''Jardinella coreena'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Edgbastonia coreena'' (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym) *''Jardinella corrugata'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Edgbastonia corrugata'' (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym) *''Jardinella edgbastonensis'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Edgbastonia edgbastonensis'' (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym) *''Jardinella eulo'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Eulodrobia eulo'' (Ponder & G. A. Clarke, 1990) (basionym) *''Jardinella exigua'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of ''

Carnarvoncochlea exigua ''Carnarvonchochlea exigua'', more commonly known as ''Jardinella exigua'' is a small freshwater snail residing in North East Queensland, near Carnarvon Gorge. Carnarvoncochlea refers to the location of origin, whilst ''exigua'' derives from the ...

'' (Ponder & Clark, 1990) (basionym) *''Jardinella isolata'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Springvalia isolata'' (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym) *''Jardinella jesswiseae'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Edgbastonia jesswisseae'' (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym) *''Jardinella pallida'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Edgbastonia pallida'' (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym) *''Jardinella zeidlerorum'' Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of '' Edgbastonia zeidlerorum'' (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym)

References

* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent freshwater/brackish Gastropoda of the World. Last update: January 24th, 2018

External links

Ponder, W. F.; Clark, G. A. (1990). A radiation of hydrobiid snails in threatened artesian springs in western Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum. 42(3): 301-363

Ponder, W. F. (1991). The eastern seaboard species of Jardinella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae), Queensland rainforest-inhabiting freshwater snails derived from the west. Records of the Australian Museum. 43(3): 275-289

Ponder W., Zhang W.-H. [Wei-Hong
Hallan A. & Shea M. (2019). New taxa of Tateidae (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from springs associated with the Great Artesian Basin and Einasleigh Uplands, Queensland, with the description of two related taxa from eastern coastal drainages. Zootaxa. 4583(1): 1-67] Jardinella, Tateidae Freshwater molluscs of Oceania {{Hydrobiidae-stub