Ouachita pebblesnail
| Ouachita pebblesnail | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Somatogyrus |
| Species: | †S. amnicoloides |
| Binomial name | |
| †Somatogyrus amnicoloides Walker, 1915 | |
The Ouachita pebblesnail, scientific name †Somatogyrus amnicoloides, was a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.
This species was endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat was rivers, and it was named after the Ouachita River. This species is now extinct.
References
- ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Somatogyrus amnicoloides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
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