Badwater snail

Badwater snail
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

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.

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