Oasis Valley springsnail

Oasis valley springsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species: P. micrococcus
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis micrococcus
(Pilsbry, 1893)

The Oasis Valley springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis micrococcus, is a species of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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