Huachuca springsnail
Appearance
Huachuca springsnail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Hydrobiidae |
Genus: | Pyrgulopsis |
Species: | P. thompsoni
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Binomial name | |
Pyrgulopsis thompsoni Hershler, 1988
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The Huachuca springsnail scientific name Pyrgulopsis thompsoni, is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
[edit]- ^ Cordeiro, J. (2020). "Pyrgulopsis thompsoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T18989A177075190. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T18989A177075190.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.