Jardinella Explained

Jardinella is a genus of small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Tateidae.^[1]

Distribution

The genus Jardinella is endemic to Queensland, Australia. Jardinella species live in four spring "supergroups" in the Great Artesian Basin: Springsure, Barcaldine, Springvale and Eulo. Jardinella tumorosa lives in Little Mulgrave River.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Jardinella include:^{[3] [4]}

• Jardinella thaanumi (Pilsbry, 1900)
• Jardinella tullyensis Ponder, 1991
• Jardinella tumorosa Ponder, 1991

Species brought into synonymy:

• Jardinella acuminata Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Edgbastonia acuminata (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990)
• Jardinella carnarvonensis Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Carnarvoncochlea carnarvonensis (Ponder & Clark, 1990) (basionym)
• Jardinella colmani Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Edgbastonia colmani (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990)
• Jardinella coreena Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Edgbastonia coreena (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym)
• Jardinella corrugata Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Edgbastonia corrugata (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym)
• Jardinella edgbastonensis Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Edgbastonia edgbastonensis (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym)
• Jardinella eulo Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Eulodrobia eulo (Ponder & G. A. Clarke, 1990) (basionym)
• Jardinella exigua Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Carnarvoncochlea exigua (Ponder & Clark, 1990) (basionym)
• Jardinella isolata Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Springvalia isolata (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym)
• Jardinella jesswiseae Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Edgbastonia jesswisseae (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym)
• Jardinella pallida Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Edgbastonia pallida (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym)
• Jardinella zeidlerorum Ponder & Clark, 1990: synonym of Edgbastonia zeidlerorum (Ponder & G. A. Clark, 1990) (basionym)

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent freshwater/brackish Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 24 January 2018

External links

• Ponder, W. F.; Clark, G. A. (1990). A radiation of hydrobiid snails in threatened artesian springs in western Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum. 42(3): 301-363
• Ponder, W. F. (1991). The eastern seaboard species of Jardinella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae), Queensland rainforest-inhabiting freshwater snails derived from the west. Records of the Australian Museum. 43(3): 275-289
• Ponder W., Zhang W.-H. [Wei-Hong], Hallan A. & Shea M. (2019). New taxa of Tateidae (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from springs associated with the Great Artesian Basin and Einasleigh Uplands, Queensland, with the description of two related taxa from eastern coastal drainages. Zootaxa. 4583(1): 1-67]

Notes and References

1. WoRMS (2014). Jardinella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818329 on 2014-11-16
2. Perez . K. E. . Ponder . W. F. . Colgan . D. J. . Clark . S. A. . Lydeard . C. . Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of spring-associated hydrobiid snails of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia . 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.020 . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 34 . 3 . 545–556 . 2005 . 15683928 . PDF .
3. Web site: Jardinella. Atlas of Living Australia.
4. Web site: Jardinella . 2014 . Roskov Y. . Kunze T. . Orrell T. . Abucay L. . Culham A. . Bailly N. . Kirk P. . Bourgoin T. . Decock W. . De Wever A. . Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 28th June 2014 . Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands . 3 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170321041001/http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/search/all/key/jardinella/match/1 . 21 March 2017 .