Huachuca springsnail

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

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species: P. thompsoni
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis thompsoni
Hershler, 1988

The Huachuca springsnail scientific name Pyrgulopsis thompsoni, is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk 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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