Tennessee pebblesnail
Tennessee pebblesnail | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
Family: | Hydrobiidae |
Genus: | Somatogyrus |
Species: | S. currierianus |
Binomial name | |
Somatogyrus currierianus (I. Lea, 1863) | |
The Tennessee pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus currierianus, is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers. Its survival is Critically Endangered.
References
- ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Somatogyrus currierianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 21 May 2014.