Moapa pebblesnail
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| Species: | F. avernalis
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| Fluminicola avernalis Pilsbry, 1935
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The Moapa pebblesnail also known as the Muddy Valley turban snail, scientific name Fluminicola avernalis, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Lithoglyphidae.[2] This species is endemic to the United States and the common name refers to the Moapa River in Nevada.
References
- ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Fluminicola avernalis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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