Aphaostracon chalarogyrus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Ecology: This species is found on mats of floating filamentous algae in a spring pool . The spring has been impounded by a large circular concrete wall and acts as a water source for a public swimming pool. The impounded spring pool is about 10 feet deep, and has fine calcareous silty sand bottom , which supports thick patches and mats of filamentous algae. Adjacent to the spring is a yellow rectangular cement outflow pool about six feet width by about 10 feet length and only a few inches deep with a bottom of fine calcareous ooze overlying the cement and large mats of Spirogyra floating on the surface. What remains, drains into a flatwood swamp that borders a small, sand-bottomed creek . Thompson (1968) listed the species as abundant in the drainage pool by the spring and less common in the spring pool, although it was generally distributed over the cement wall, bottom silt, and vegetation, while the spring run, flatwood swamp, and the creek were devoid of hydrobiid snails. [1].

List of Habitats :

•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.9     Wetlands (inland) - Freshwater Springs and Oases   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: King, F. W., & THOMPSON, F. G. A review of the American lizards of the genus Xenosaurus Peters. Bull . Florida St . Mus., Biol. Sci. 12: 93-123., 1968.

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aphaostracon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. asthenes (Blue Spring Aphaostracon) · A. chalarogyrus (Freemouth Hydrobe Snail) · A. hypohyalinum (Suwanee Hydrobe) · A. monas (Wekiwa Hydrobe) · A. pachynotum (Thick-Shell Hydrobe) · A. pycnum (Dense Hydrobe) · A. pycnus (Dense Hydrobe) · A. rhadinum (Slough Hydrobe) · A. theiocrenetum (Clifton Spring Hydrobe) · A. xynoelictum (Fenney Spring Hydrobe) · A. xynoelictus (Fenney Spring Hydrobe)

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Further Reading

• Burgess, G.H. and Franz, R. 1978. Zoogeography of the Aquatic Fauna of the St. Johns River System with Comments on Adjacent Peninsular Faunas. American Midland Naturalist 100(1): 160-170.
• IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.2). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 10 November 2011).
• Johnson, R.I. 1973. Distribution of Hydrobiidae, a family of fresh and brackish water gastropods, in peninsular Florida. Occasional Papers on Mollusks (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University) 3: 281-303.
• King, F. W., & THOMPSON, F. G. A review of the American lizards of the genus Xenosaurus Peters. Bull. Florida St. Mus., Biol. Sci. 12: 93-123., 1968.
• Thompson, F. G. 1968. The aquatic snails of the family Hydrobiidae of peninsular Florida. University Florida Press, Gainesville.
• Thompson, F.G. 1999. An identification manual for the freshwater snails of Florida. pp. 1-96. Walkerana.
• Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 526. ISBN: 1-888569-01-8.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
• Cordeiro, J. & Perez, K. 2011. Aphaostracon chalarogyrus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Academy of Natural Sciences: Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
• National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2683382
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-70626
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 70626
• IUCN ID: 191893
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: IMGASF6020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 160129

Footnotes

1. Cordeiro, J. & Perez, K. 2011. Aphaostracon chalarogyrus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]

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