Wekiwa siltsnail

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

The Wekiwa siltsnail or Wekiwa spring snail, scientific name Floridobia wekiwae, is a species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States; it is named after the Wekiwa River in Florida.

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