Skirted hornsnail

Skirted hornsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Species: P. pyrenella
Binomial name
Pleurocera pyrenella
Conrad, 1834

The skirted hornsnail, scientific name Pleurocera pyrenella, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. ↑ Bogan A. E. (1996). Pleurocera pyrenella. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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