Montezuma Well springsnail

Montezuma Well springsnail
Montezuma Well springsnail
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species: P. montezumensis
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis montezumensis
Hershler, 1988

The Montezuma Well springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis montezumensis, is a species of very small freshwater snail that has an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers.

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