Distal-gland springsnail

Distal-gland springsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species: P. nanus
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis nanus
Hershler & Sada, 1987

The distal-gland springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis nanus, is a species of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States.

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