Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Truncatelloidea > Family Tateidae > Genus Potamopyrgus

Potamopyrgus antipodarum (J. E. Gray, 1843)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

PotamopyrgusW. Stimpson, 1865accepted genus name

Species group names

Amnicola antipodarum J.E. Gray, 1843 objective synonym
Missing alexenkoae V. Anistratenko, 1995 subjective synonym
Missing jenkinsi E.A. Smith, 1889 subjective synonym
Missing polistchuki V. Anistratenko, 1991 subjective synonym
Amnicola antipodanum J. E. Gray, 1843 orthographic variant
Hydrobia jenkinsi E. A. Smith, 1889 synonym
Paludestrina jenkinsi (E. A. Smith, 1889) synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Danish: ungefødende dyndsnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: Jenkins' brakwaterhorentje; Jenkins' waterhoren sources: Adema, J.P.H.M.; de Bruyne, R.H.; Perk, F.A. (1989). Preliminary name list of marine molluscs and shells, regularly washed ashore along the coasts of the Netherlands and Belgium [Voorlopige naamlijst van de mariene mollusken en de regelmatig langs de kust van Nederland en België aangespoelde schelpensoorten]. De Strandvlo 9(2): 49-59;de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.
 English: Jenkins' spire shell; Jenkins' spire snail; Jenkins' spiresnail; Jenkins's spire snail; New Zealand mud snail; New Zealand mudsnail; New Zealand spiresnail; New-Zealand mudsnail sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 German: Jenkins Deckelschnecke; Neuseeländische Deckelschnecke; Neuseeländische Zwergdeckelschnecke; NeuseelandZwergdeckelschnecke sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.
 Norwegian Bokmål: vandresnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Nynorsk: vandresnigel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: wodożytka nowozelandzka sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: nyzeeländsk tusensnäcka

Literature

basis of record

de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.

additional source

Haase, M. (2008). The radiation of hydrobiid gastropods in New Zealand: A revision including the description of new species based on morphology and mtDNA sequence information. Systematics and Biodiversity. 6(1): 99-159.

additional source

Ponder, W.F. (1988). Potamopyrgus antipodarum - a molluscan coloniser of Europe and Australia. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 54: 271-285. London.

additional source

Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453.

additional source

Hamada, K.; Takeda, N.; Tatara, Y.; Ogata, D.; Nakajima, M.; Sonohara, T.; Urabe, M. (2013). Habitat Description of Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae) in Some Areas of Japan: How Far Will It Spread?. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 71 (1-2): 61-79.

additional source

Shimada, K.; Urabe, M. (2003). Comparative Ecology of the Alien Freshwater Snail Potamopyrgus αntipodarum and the Indigenous Snail Semisulcospira spp. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 62 (1-2): 39-53.

additional source

Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

identification resource

Rowson, B., Powell, H., Willing, M., Dobson, M. & Shaw, H. (2021). Freshwater Snails of Britain and Ireland. FSC Publications, Telford, UK.

Genbank

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Potamopyrgus antipodarum (J. E. Gray, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=147123

Ruud A. Bank. Potamopyrgus antipodarum (J. E. Gray, 1843). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/9f6998e1-c9f6-4b4c-909e-6e75488a4f3a

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2022-10-17 by Ruud A. Bank & by Bruce Marshall

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