Tennessee pebblesnail
Tennessee pebblesnail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
Family: | Hydrobiidae |
Genus: | Somatogyrus |
Species: | S. currierianus |
Binomial name | |
Somatogyrus currierianus (I. Lea, 1863) | |
The Tennessee pebblesnail (Somatogyrus currierianus) is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
Distribution
This species is endemic to rivers in a small area of Alabama in the southeastern United States. It is a Critically Endangered species, and possibly extinct.[1]
References
- 1 2 Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Somatogyrus currierianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
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