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Short description: Species of gastropod

Reverse pebblesnail

Extinct  (outdated[1]) (IUCN 3.1)[2]

Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[3]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species:
S. alcoviensis
Binomial name
Somatogyrus alcoviensis
Krieger, 1972

The reverse pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus alcoviensis, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to Newton County, Georgia[3] in the United States, where it occurs in the Alcovy and Yellow Rivers. It was believed extinct until it was rediscovered in a 2000 survey.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Watson, C.N., Jr (2000). R.A. Tankersley, D.I. Warmolts, G.T. Watters, B.J. Armitage, P.D. Johnson, and R.S. Butler. ed. "Results of a survey for selected species of Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda) in Georgia and Florida". Freshwater Mollusk Symposia Proceedings (Ohio Biological Survey, Columbus, Ohio): 233–244. 
  2. Bogan, A.E. (2000). "Somatogyrus alcoviensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2000: e.T40053A10311559. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T40053A10311559.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/40053/10311559. Retrieved 17 February 2023. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Somatogyrus alcoviensis". NatureServe. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.107666/Somatogyrus_alcoviensis. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3169775 entry