Mercuria confusa
| Mercuria confusa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Mercuria |
| Species: | M. confusa |
| Binomial name | |
| Mercuria confusa Montague, 1803 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pseudamnicola confusa | |
Mercuria confusa, common name the '"swollen spire snail", is a northern European species of small brackish water or freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
This species only tolerates very low salinities, and is perhaps better characterized as a freshwater snail.
Distribution
This species occurs on the coasts of:
- The Netherlands
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- France
References
- "Swollen Spire Snail Mercuria confusa". Species Action Plan for Sussex. Sussex Biodiversity Partnership. Archived from the original on 24 June 2006. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
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