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Pyrgophorus
Sign in to savePyrgophorus is a genus of very small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.
Species
Serrate Crownsnail
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyCochliopidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 615
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Cochliopidae
- Collections
- USNM, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Puerto Rico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hydrobiidae
- Image
- Pyrgophorus spinosus shell.jpg
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- Pyrgophorus
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- Pyrgophorus
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- genus
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Pyrgophorus is a genus of very small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.
== Species == Species in the genus Pyrgophorus include: Pyrgophorus cisterninus (Küster, 1852) Pyrgophorus parvulus (Guilding, 1828) Pyrgophorus platyrachis (Thompson, 1968) - serrate crownsnail Pyrgophorus spinosus (Call & Pilsbry, 1886) - spiny crownsnail Pyrgophorus coronatus (Pfeiffer, 1840)
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