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Phreatodrobia

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Phreatodrobia
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Phreatodrobia

Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
Diversity[1][2]
8 species

Phreatodrobia is a genus of very small or minute freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lithoglyphidae.[3]

The generic name Phreatodrobia is derived from the Greek word "phreatos" which means ground water, as in phreatic,[1] and from the suffix -drobia based on family name Hydrobiidae (where it was originally classified), which means "living in water".

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Species within the genus Phreatodrobia include:

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Hershler R. & Longley G. (1986). "Phreatic hydrobiids (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer region, south-central Texas". Malacologia 27(1): 127-172. page 132.
  2. ^ a b Hershler & Longley (1987). "Phreatodrobia coronae, a New Species of Cave Snail from Southwestern Texas". The Nautilus 101(3): 133-139.
  3. ^ Hershler R. & Thompson F. G. (1990). "Antrorbis breweri, a new genus and species of hydrobiid cavesnail (Gastropoda) from Coosa River Basin, northeastern Alabama". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(l): 197-204. PDF.