Potamopyrgus oscitans

Potamopyrgus oscitans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Potamopyrgus
Species: P. oscitans
Binomial name
Potamopyrgus oscitans
Iredale, 1944

Potamopyrgus oscitans is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Australia.

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