Hidden pebblesnail

Hidden pebblesnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species: S. decipiens
Binomial name
Somatogyrus decipiens
Walker, 1909

The hidden pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus decipiens, is a species of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.[2]

This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers. The common name is based on a river called the Hidden River.

References

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