Critically Endangered
Belgrandiella mimula
Belgrandiella mimula
Belgrandiella mimula is a springsnail in the family Hydrobiidae (order Littorinimorpha), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Austria.
Appearance
Belgrandiella mimula is a minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
Range and habitat
This species is endemic to Austria.
GBIF currently lists 11 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Springsnails graze biofilm in cold, stable water. A dried spring or a pumped aquifer can remove the only known population.
Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.
In crisis
A springsnail listed from one source is one drought or one borehole away from an empty name.
Belgrandiella mimula is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Belgrandiella mimula — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q307622 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
