Pyrgophorus
| Pyrgophorus | |
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| Drawing of two apertural views and one lateral view of shells of Pyrgophorus spinosus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Pyrgophorus Ancey, 1888 |
Pyrgophorus is a genus of very small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.
Species
Species in the genus Pyrgophorus include:[1]
- Pyrgophorus parvulus (Guilding, 1828)
- Pyrgophorus platyrachis (F. G. Thompson, 1968) - serrate crownsnail
- Pyrgophorus spinosus (Call & Pilsbry, 1886) - spiny crownsnail
- Pyrgophorus coronatus (Pfeiffer, 1840)
References
- ↑ Pyrgophorus. ITIS, accessed 26 July 2009.
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