Marstonia castor

Marstonia castor
Marstonia castor
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Nymphophilinae
Genus: Marstonia
Species: M. castor
Binomial name
Marstonia castor
F. G. Thompson, 1977
Synonyms

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

  1. ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Pyrgulopsis castor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.