Moapa pebblesnail

Moapa pebblesnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily: Lithoglyphinae
Genus: Fluminicola
Species: F. avernalis
Binomial name
Fluminicola avernalis
Pilsbry, 1935

The Moapa pebblesnail also known as the Muddy Valley turban snail, scientific name Fluminicola avernalis, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Lithoglyphidae.[2] This species is endemic to the United States and the common name refers to the Moapa River in Nevada.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Fluminicola avernalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. Bouchet P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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