Pyrgophorus

Pyrgophorus
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
clade Littorinimorpha

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]

References

  1. Pyrgophorus. ITIS, accessed 26 July 2009.


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