The Huachuca springsnail scientific name Pyrgulopsis thompsoni, is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Hydrobiidae |
Genus: | Pyrgulopsis |
Species: | P. thompsoni
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Binomial name | |
Pyrgulopsis thompsoni Hershler, 1988
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This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
edit- ^ Cordeiro, J. (2020). "Pyrgulopsis thompsoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T18989A177075190. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T18989A177075190.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.