Pygmy siltsnail

Pygmy siltsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Floridobia
Species: F. parva
Binomial name
Floridobia parva
(Thompson, 1968)
Synonyms

Cincinnatia parva Thompson, 1968

The pygmy siltsnail, scientific name Floridobia parva, is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States.

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