Transverse grand pyrg

Transverse grand pyrg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Nymphophilinae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species: P. cruciglans
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis cruciglans
Hershler, 1998

The transverse grand pyrg, scientific name Pyrgulopsis cruciglans, is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group 2000. Pyrgulopsis cruciglans. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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