Crystal siltsnail

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

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Cincinnatia
Species: C. helicogyra
Binomial name
Cincinnatia helicogyra
F.G. Thompson, 1968

The crystal siltsnail also known as the helicoid spring snail, scientific name 'Cincinnatia helicogyra, is a species of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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