Austropyrgus foris
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Genus:	Austropyrgus
Species:	A. foris
Binomial name
Austropyrgus foris (Ponder, Colgan, Clark, Miller & Terzis, 1994)
Synonyms
Fluvidona foris Ponder, Colgan, Clark, Miller & Terzis, 1994

Austropyrgus foris 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 eastern Victoria, Australia. It is only known from a small stream at Cape Liptrap, near Waratah Bay.^[1]

• List of non-marine molluscs of Australia

• Clark, Stephanie A.; Miller, Alison C.; Ponder, Winston F. (2003). "Revision of the Snail Genus Austropyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae): A Morphostatic Radiation of Freshwater Gastropods in Southeastern Australia" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. Supplement 28. The Australian Museum: 1–109. doi:10.3853/j.0812-7387.28.2003.1377. ISBN 0-7347-2313-X. ISSN 0812-7387. Retrieved 2 July 2014.

• "Species Austropyrgus foris (Ponder, Colgan, Clark, Miller & Terzis, 1994)". Australian Faunal Directory. 30 January 2012.
• "Austropyrgus foris (Ponder, Colgan, Clark, Miller & Terzis, 1994)". Atlas of Living Australia.

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