Hydrobia acuta neglecta
Subspecies of gastropod
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Hydrobia acuta neglecta is a European subspecies of small brackish water snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.[2]
| Hydrobia acuta neglecta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Hydrobia |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | H. a. neglecta |
| Trinomial name | |
| Hydrobia acuta neglecta Muus, 1963[1] | |
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Distribution
This species which has a distribution type: oceanic temperate occurs on the coasts of the North Sea, in countries and islands including:
- Iceland
- Denmark
- Sweden
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- France
Ecology
Hydrobia acuta neglecta occurs in coastal lagoons where incoming freshwater dilutes sea water. The preferred salinity range is 10-24 ‰.[3]
Status
The status of this taxon is uncertain. Hydrobia neglecta is treated as a full species in Fauna Europaea,[4] but in 1995 it had been suggested that H. neglecta is a synonym of the Mediterranean Hydrobia acuta (Draparnaud).[5] Then a neglecta colony in northern France was shown to be acuta.[6] In 2000 a molecular study concluded that north-west European populations were not specifically distinct from the Mediterranean Hydrobia acuta and designated them subspecies neglecta Muus.[7]
