Coosa pebblesnail

The Coosa pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus coosaensis, is a species of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers.

Coosa pebblesnail

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Truncatelloidea
Family:
Hydrobiidae
Genus:
Somatogyrus
Species:
S. coosaensis
Binomial name
Somatogyrus coosaensis
Walker, 1904

References
    • Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Somatogyrus coosaensis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2000: e.T20354A9190598. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T20354A9190598.en. Retrieved 14 January 2018.


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