Fishes: Jordinella Floridae

Monday, 23 July 2012

Jordinella Floridae

Jordinella is a genus of small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.he genus is Jardinella is endemic to Queensland, Australia. There live in four springs "supegroups" in the Great Artesian Basin: Springsure, Barcaldine, Springvale and Eulo. Jardinella tumorosa lives in Little Mulgrave River.Branchiostoma floridae is a lancelet of the genus Branchiostoma. The genome of this species has been sequenced, revealing that among the chordates, the morphologically simpler tunicates are actually closer related to vertebrates than lancelets.