Austropyrgus niger

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{Cite journal | author = Clark, S. | title = Austropyrgus niger | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2011 | page = e.T188981A8670451 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2011 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/188981/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T188981A8670451.en | access-date = 10 January 2018| doi-access = free }}

| taxon = Austropyrgus niger

| authority = (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

| synonyms = *Fluvidona nigra Smith, 1992

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Austropyrgus niger is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to southeastern Tasmania, Australia. It is found in small coastal streams along the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.

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  • {{cite journal| last1=Clark| first1=Stephanie A.| last2=Miller| first2=Alison C.| last3=Ponder| first3=Winston F.| year=2003| title=Revision of the Snail Genus Austropyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae): A Morphostatic Radiation of Freshwater Gastropods in Southeastern Australia| journal=Records of the Australian Museum| volume=Supplement 28| pages=1–109| publisher=The Australian Museum| doi=10.3853/j.0812-7387.28.2003.1377| isbn=0-7347-2313-X| issn=0812-7387| url=http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Journals/17954/1377_complete.pdf| access-date=2 July 2014}}