Kingman springsnail

Kingman springsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species: P. conica
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis conica
Hershler, 1988

The Kingman springsnail (Pyrgulopsis conica) is a species of freshwater snail in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails. It is endemic to Mohave County, Arizona, in the United States.[2]

This small snail has a shell no more than 2.7 millimeters tall. It is convex in shape to rounded with shoulders. It lives in aquatic habitat in the Black Mountains near Kingman, Arizona.[3] It is known from only three springs, where it may be threatened by loss of groundwater. A single drought event could threaten the entire population of the species.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Cordeiro, J. & Seddon, M. 2012. Pyrgulopsis conica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. Downloaded on 12 September 2014.
  2. NatureServe. 2014. Pyrgulopsis conica. NatureServe Explorer. Version 7.1. Accessed September 11, 2014.
  3. Pyrgulopsis conica. Invertebrate Abstracts. Arizona Game and Fish Department.
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