Tapered cavesnail
Tapered cavesnail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Hydrobiidae |
Genus: | Fontigens |
Species: | F. holsingeri |
Binomial name | |
Fontigens holsingeri Hubricht, 1976 | |
The tapered cavesnail, scientific name Fontigens holsingeri, is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States.
References
- Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Fontigens holsingeri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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