- Duckwater pyrg
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Duckwater pyrg Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade LittorinimorphaSuperfamily: Rissooidea Family: Hydrobiidae Genus: Pyrgulopsis Species: P. aloba Binomial name Pyrgulopsis aloba
Hershler, 1999The duckwater pyrg, scientific name Pyrgulopsis aloba, is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
This species is endemic to the United States. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
- Mollusc Specialist Group 2000. Pyrgulopsis aloba.
- 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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