Austropyrgus rectoides

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{Cite journal | author = Clark, S. | title = Austropyrgus rectoides | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2011 | page = e.T189446A8733389 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2011 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/189446/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189446A8733389.en | access-date = 10 January 2018| doi-access = free }}

| taxon = Austropyrgus rectoides

| authority = Clark, Miller & Ponder, 2003

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Austropyrgus rectoides is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the Hydrobiidae family. This species is endemic to Tasmania, Australia. It is found in small coastal rivers and streams in northern and western Tasmania and also on Hunter Island.

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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}}