Granite pebblesnail

Granite pebblesnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species: S. hinkleyi
Binomial name
Somatogyrus hinkleyi
Walker, 1904

The Granite pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus hinkleyi, is a species of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to the United States. The Granite River is found in Minnesota.

References

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