Cave physa

Cave physa

Taxobox
name = Cave physa


status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Basommatophora
familia = Physidae
genus = "Physella"
species = "P. spelunca"
binomial = "Physella spelunca"
binomial_authority = Turner & Clench, 1974
synonyms =

The cave physa ("Physella spelunca") is a species of small, air-breathing, freshwater snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae. It lives only in caves.

This species is endemic to the United States.

References

* Bogan, A.E. 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/17241/all Physella spelunca] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 07 August 2007.


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