Savannah pebblesnail

Savannah pebblesnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species: S. tenax
Binomial name
Somatogyrus tenax
F.G. Thompson, 1969

The Savannah pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus tenax, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. Somatogyrus tenax may actually be a junior synonym of Somatogyrus virginicus, although the taxonomy remains in dispute.[1][2]

Sources

  1. 1 2 Cordeiro, J. & Perez, K. (2011). "Somatogyrus tenax". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2011: e.T20348A9189625. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T20348A9189625.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. Dillon, R. T., Jr.; B.T. Watson; T. W. Stewart & W. K. Reeves. "Somatogyrus virginicus Walker 1904". Freshwater Gastropods of North America. Retrieved 22 May 2014.


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