Savannah pebblesnail
| Savannah pebblesnail | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Somatogyrus |
| Species: | S. tenax |
| Binomial name | |
| Somatogyrus tenax F.G. Thompson, 1969 | |
The Savannah pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus tenax, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. Somatogyrus tenax may actually be a junior synonym of Somatogyrus virginicus, although the taxonomy remains in dispute.[1][2]
Sources
- 1 2 Cordeiro, J. & Perez, K. (2011). "Somatogyrus tenax". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ↑ Dillon, R. T., Jr., B.T. Watson, T. W. Stewart & W. K. Reeves. "Somatogyrus virginicus Walker 1904". Freshwater Gastropods of North America. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
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