Greenbrier cavesnail
| Greenbrier cavesnail | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Fontigens |
| Species: | F. turritella |
| Binomial name | |
| Fontigens turritella Hubricht, 1976 | |
The Greenbrier cavesnail, scientific name Fontigens turritella, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States.
The Greenbrier River Valley (which has many caves), is in West Virginia.
References
- Bogan, A.E. 1996. Fontigens turritella.
- 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.