Crystal siltsnail | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Hydrobiidae |
Genus: | Cincinnatia |
Species: | C. helicogyra |
Binomial name | |
Cincinnatia helicogyra F.G. Thompson, 1968 |
The crystal siltsnail also known as the helicoid spring snail, scientific name 'Cincinnatia helicogyra, is a species of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.
This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.