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Beddomeia salmonis

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ308945 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beddomeia salmonis (in the family Tateidae) is a species of very small freshwater snail that has a gill and an operculum, an aquatic operculate gastropod mollusk. This species is endemic to Australia, and was first described in 1993 by Winston Ponder and G.A. Clark.

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“Beddomeia salmonis” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Beddomeia, salmonis and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Beddomeia, salmonis and species.
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Why this record matters

“Beddomeia salmonis” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Beddomeia, salmonis and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q308945. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beddomeia salmonis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.