Opaque pebblesnail
| Opaque pebblesnail | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Somatogyrus |
| Species: | S. tennesseensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Somatogyrus tennesseensis Walker, 1906 | |
The opaque pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus tennesseensis, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. The natural habitat of this species is rivers.
References
- Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Somatogyrus tennesseensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
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