New Mexico hotspring snail | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Hydrobiidae |
Genus: | Pyrgulopsis |
Species: | P. thermalis |
Binomial name | |
Pyrgulopsis thermalis (Taylor, 1987) |
The New Mexico hotspring snail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis thermalis, is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.
This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is hot springs. It is threatened by habitat loss.