Mimic cavesnail
Mimic cavesnail | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bogan A. E. (1996). Phreatodrobia imitata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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.
- ↑ 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.