Biology:Dwarf pebblesnail

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Dwarf pebblesnail

Critically endangered, possibly extinct (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species:
S. nanus
Binomial name
Somatogyrus nanus
Walker, 1904

The dwarf pebblesnail (Somatogyrus nanus) is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae.

This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States. Its natural habitat is the Coosa River, but it has not been collected since the river was impounded.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q3175263 entry