Mimic cavesnail

The mimic cavesnail, scientific name Phreatodrobia imitata, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.[1]

Mimic cavesnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Hydrobiidae
Genus:
Phreatodrobia
Species:
P. imitata
Binomial name
Phreatodrobia imitata
Hershler & Longley, 1986[3]

Distribution

This species is endemic to the United States.[2] Type locality is Verstraeten Well, Bexar County, Texas.[3]

Description

The shell has 3.3-3.5 whorls.[3] The average height of the shell is 1.01-1.03 mm.[3]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Bogan A. E. (1996). Phreatodrobia imitata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  3. 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 151.


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