Acochlidium fijiiensis
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Acochlidium fijiiensis is a species of freshwater gastropod
, an aquatic gastropod mollusk within the family Acochlidiidae
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Acochlidium fijiiensis has no shell.
It lives in two rivers on Fiji
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Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
, an aquatic gastropod mollusk within the family Acochlidiidae
Acochlidiidae
Acochlidiidae are a taxonomic family of shell-less freshwater gastropods , aquatic gastropod mollusks within the clade Acochlidiacea.- 2005 taxonomy :...
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Acochlidium fijiiensis has no shell.
It lives in two rivers on Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
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Further reading
- Haase M. & Wawra E. (1996). "The genital system of Acochlidium fijiense (Opisthobranchia: Acochlidioidea) and its inferred function". MalacologiaMalacologiaMalacologia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of malacology, the study of mollusks. The journal publishes articles in the fields of molluscan systematics, ecology, population ecology, genetics, molecular genetics, evolution, and phylogenetics.The journal specializes in publishing...
38: 143-151.