New Mexico hotspring snail

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

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

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.

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