Ouachita pebblesnail

Ouachita pebblesnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species: S. amnicoloides
Binomial name
Somatogyrus amnicoloides
Walker, 1915

The Ouachita pebblesnail, scientific nameSomatogyrus amnicoloides, was a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species was endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat was rivers, and it was named after the Ouachita River. This species is now extinct.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Somatogyrus amnicoloides". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2000: e.T20350A9189869. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T20350A9189869.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.


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