Mimic cavesnail

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

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Genus: Phreatodrobia
Species: P. imitata
Binomial name
Phreatodrobia imitata
Hershler & Longley, 1986[2]

The mimic cavesnail, scientific name Phreatodrobia imitata, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Lithoglyphidae.[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to the United States.[1] Type locality is Verstraeten Well, Bexar County, Texas.[2]

Description

The shell has 3.3-3.5 whorls.[2] The average height of the shell is 1.01-1.03 mm.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Bogan A. E. (1996). Phreatodrobia imitata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d Hershler R. & Longley G. (1986). "Phreatic hydrobiids (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer region, south-central Texas". Malacologia 27(1): 127-172. page 151.
  3. ^ Hershler R. & Thompson F. G. (1990). "Antrorbis breweri, a new genus and species of hydrobiid cavesnail (Gastropoda) from Coosa River Basin, northeastern Alabama". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(l): 197-204. PDF.