Skirted hornsnail

Skirted hornsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Species: P. pyrenella
Binomial name
Pleurocera pyrenella
Conrad, 1834

The skirted hornsnail, scientific name Pleurocera pyrenella, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the USA.

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (1996). Pleurocera pyrenella. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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