Crystal Spring springsnail

Crystal spring springsnail
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Genus:	Pyrgulopsis
Species:	P. crystalis
Binomial name
	Pyrgulopsis crystalis; Hershler & Sada, 1987

The Crystal Spring springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis crystalis, is a species of small freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species' natural habitat is springs. It is endemic to Crystal Pool, Ash Meadows, Nevada, United States.^[1]

Description

P. crystalis is a small snail that has a height of 1.8–2.6 millimetres (0.071–0.102 in) and a globose to neritiform, small to medium-sized shell. Its differentiated from other Pyrgulopsis in that its penial filament has an absent lobe and elongate filament with the penial ornament consisting of a large, superficial ventral gland.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Hershler, Robert (1994). A Review of the North American Freshwater Snail Genus Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Pyrgulopsis crystalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

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[review-1] Hershler, Robert (1994). A Review of the North American Freshwater Snail Genus Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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