Pyrgulopsis castaicensis

Pyrgulopsis castaicensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Nymphophilinae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species: P. castaicensis
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis castaicensis
Hershler & Liu, 2010[1]

Pyrgulopsis castaicensis is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.[1]

Distribution

Pyrgulopsis castaicensis occurs in only one spring in the upper part of the Santa Clara River basin, in southwestern California.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hershler R. Liu H.-P. (25 January 2010). "Two new, possibly threatened species of Pyrgulopsis (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from southwestern California". Zootaxa 2343: 1-17, 8 plates. preview.


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