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Tomichia cawstoni

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Superfamily
  
Rissooidea

Scientific name
  
Tomichia cawstoni

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Littorinimorpha

Family
  
Pomatiopsidae

Rank
  
Species

Tomichia cawstoni is a species of very small freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

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Distribution

This species is endemic to South Africa. The type locality is Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Description

The width of the shell is 2.5 mm.; the height of the shell is 4.6 mm.

Ecology

The natural habitat for this species is rivers.

References

Tomichia cawstoni Wikipedia