Badwater snail | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Assimineidae |
Genus: | Assiminea |
Species: | A. infirma |
Binomial name | |
Assiminea infirma S.S. Berry, 1947 |
The Badwater snail, scientific name Assiminea infirma, is a species of minute, salt marsh snail; of the Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, United States.
The "Badwater snail" is a snail species with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk, in the family Assimineidae.
This species is endemic to the Mojave Desert in California.