Pyrgulopsis licina
| Pyrgulopsis licina | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Pyrgulopsis |
| Species: | P. licina
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| Binomial name | |
| Pyrgulopsis licina Hershler, Liu & Bradford, 2013
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Pyrgulopsis licina, is a species of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.
This species is endemic to Ash Meadows along the Amargosa River in Nevada, United States. Its natural habitat is springs.
Description
[edit]Pyrgulopsis licina is a small snail that has a maximum height of 2.4 millimetres (0.094 in) and narrow conical shell. It has an absence of glands on its penis and a strongly curved penial filament leading to its name P. licina from the Latin licinus, meaning bent or turned upward.
References
[edit]- Hershler, Robert; Liu, Hsiu-Ping; Bradford, Corbin (9 September 2013). "Systematics of a widely distributed western North American springsnail, Pyrgulopsis micrococcus (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae), with descriptions of three new congeners". ZooKeys (330): 27–52. doi:10.3897/zookeys.330.5852. PMC 3800804. PMID 24146554. Retrieved 21 June 2017. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
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