San Bernardino springsnail
| San Bernardino springsnail | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Pyrgulopsis |
| Species: | P. bernardina |
| Binomial name | |
| Pyrgulopsis bernardina Taylor, 1987 | |
The San Bernardino springsnail, Pyrgulopsis bernardina, is a species of very small or freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States, occurring in the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Arizona.
References
- Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Pyrgulopsis bernardina. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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