- Marstonia castor
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Marstonia castor Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade LittorinimorphaSuperfamily: Rissooidea Family: Hydrobiidae Subfamily: Nymphophilinae Genus: Marstonia Species: M. castor Binomial name Marstonia castor
F. G. Thompson, 1977Synonyms Pyrgulopsis castor (F. G. Thompson, 1977)
Marstonia castor, common name the beaver pond marstonia, is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States.
References
- ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Pyrgulopsis castor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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