Moapa pebblesnail

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

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily: Lithoglyphinae
Genus: Fluminicola
Species: F. avernalis
Binomial name
Fluminicola avernalis
Pilsbry, 1935

The Moapa pebblesnail also known as the Muddy Valley turban snail, scientific name Fluminicola avernalis, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Lithoglyphidae.[2] This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Fluminicola avernalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ^ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.