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Pyrgulopsis
Sign in to savePyrgulopsis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyHydrobiidae
Habitatfreshwater
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 639
- With media
- 363
- Family
- Hydrobiidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hydrobiidae
- Image
- Pyrgulopsis nevadensis shell.jpg
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- Category:Pyrgulopsis
- taxon name
- Pyrgulopsis
- taxon rank
- genus
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Pyrgulopsis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.
== Etymology == The name Pyrgulopsis is composed from Pyrgula, another genus of snail, and opsis = aspect of.
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