Cortez Hills pebblesnail
The Cortez Hills pebblesnail (Pyrgulopsis bryantwalkeri) is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.
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| Species: | P. bryantwalkeri |
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This species' natural habitat is springs. It is endemic to a spring in the Cortez foot-hills, Elko County, Nevada, United States.[1]
Description
P. bryantwalkeri is a small snail that has a height of 1.5–3.2 millimetres (0.059–0.126 in) and globose to ovate-conic shell. Its differentiated from other Pyrgulopsis in that its penial filament has a very weak lobe and short filament with the penial ornament consisting of a weakly developed terminal gland.[1]
References
- Hershler, Robert (1994). A Review of the North American Freshwater Snail Genus Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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