Biology:Flint pebblesnail

Short description: Species of gastropod

Flint pebblesnail
Conservation status
Vulnerable (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Neotaenioglossa
Family:	Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily:	Lithoglyphinae
Genus:	Somatogyrus
Species:	S. rheophilas
Binomial name
Somatogyrus rheophilas F.G. Thompson, 1984
Synonyms
Somatogyrus rheophilus F. G. Thompson, 1984

The Flint pebblesnail (Somatogyrus rheophilas) is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Flint River in Georgia in the United States.

References

• InvertEBase. (2018). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase (InvertEBase.org) project.

External links

• Thompson, F. G. (1984). North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae. Malacologia. 25(1): 109-141.

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