Pygmy pebblesnail | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Hydrobiidae |
Genus: | Somatogyrus |
Species: | S. pygmaeus |
Binomial name | |
Somatogyrus pygmaeus Walker, 1909 |
The pygmy pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus pygmaeus, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers.