Biology:Anchialine pool snail

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Anchialine pool snail

Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neritimorpha
Order: Cycloneritida
Family: Neritiliidae
Genus: Neritilia
Species:
N. hawaiiensis
Binomial name
Neritilia hawaiiensis
Kay, 1979

The anchialine pool snail, scientific name Neritilia hawaiiensis, is a species living in brackish estuaries and in anchialine pools.[3] These snails have an operculum, and are aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritiliidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the islands of Hawaii, United States, and lives only in brackish estuaries and in anchialine pools,[3] which are marine pools that have no surface connection with the ocean but that are salty and that fluctuate in level with the tides.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q4752619 entry