Enterprise siltsnail

Enterprise siltsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Floridobia
Species: F. monroensis
Binomial name
Floridobia monroensis
(Dall, 1885)
Synonyms

Cincinnatia monroensis (Dall, 1885)

The Enterprise siltsnail, also known as the Enterprise spring snail, scientific name Floridobia monroensis, is a species of very small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails.

This species is endemic to the United States. It is named after the settlement of Enterprise, which is or was near Lake Monroe in Volusia County, Florida.

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