Transverse grand pyrg

Transverse grand pyrg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Nymphophilinae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species: P. cruciglans
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis cruciglans
Hershler, 1998

The transverse grand pyrg, scientific name Pyrgulopsis cruciglans, is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group 2000. Pyrgulopsis cruciglans. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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