Dwarf pebblesnail

Dwarf pebblesnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species: S. nanus
Binomial name
Somatogyrus nanus
Walker, 1904

The dwarf pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus nanus, is a species of very small or minute species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers.

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