Pyrgophorus is a genus of very small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.
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| Drawing of two apertural views and one lateral view of shells of Pyrgophorus spinosus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cochliopidae |
| Genus: | Pyrgophorus Ancey, 1888 |
Species
editSpecies in the genus Pyrgophorus include:[1]
- Pyrgophorus cisterninus (Küster, 1852)
- Pyrgophorus parvulus (Guilding, 1828)
- Pyrgophorus platyrachis (Thompson, 1968) - serrate crownsnail
- Pyrgophorus spinosus (Call & Pilsbry, 1886) - spiny crownsnail
- Pyrgophorus coronatus (Pfeiffer, 1840)
References
edit- ^ Pyrgophorus. ITIS, accessed 26 July 2009.
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