Tennessee pebblesnail
| Tennessee pebblesnail | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Somatogyrus |
| Species: | S. currierianus |
| Binomial name | |
| Somatogyrus currierianus (I. Lea, 1863) | |
The Tennessee pebblesnail (Somatogyrus currierianus) is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
Distribution
This species is endemic to rivers in a small area of Alabama in the southeastern United States. It is a Critically Endangered species, and possibly extinct.[1]
References
- 1 2 Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Somatogyrus currierianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
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