''Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni'' is a species of
freshwater gastropod
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, an aquatic
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
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within the family
Acochlidiidae
Acochlidiidae are a taxonomic family of shell-less freshwater gastropods (one of them '' Palliohedyle weberi'' lives in brackish water),Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: ...
.
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
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''bayerfehlmanni'' is in honour of
Frederick Merkle Bayer and of
Herman Adair Fehlmann, who made the research of ''Acochlidium'' on Palau.
Type specimen
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are stored in
Natural History Museum, Vienna
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and in
Natural History Museum of Basel
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Distribution
The
type locality is
Arakitoach River,
Babelthuap,
Palau Islands
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Description
''Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni'' has no shell. The body length is 25 mm.
It has two pairs of tentacles.
It is a
hermaphrodite
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The individuals of many ...
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References
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Acochlidiidae
Gastropods described in 1980