Ovate pebblesnail

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

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species: S. excavatus
Binomial name
Somatogyrus excavatus
Walker, 1906

The ovate pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus excavatus, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers.

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