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Fairbanks Springsnail
Pyrgulopsis fairbanksensis
The Fairbanks springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis fairbanksensis, is a species of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.
This species' natural habitat is springs. It is endemic to Fairbanks Spring, Ash Meadows, Nevada, United States.
From the article Fairbanks springsnail on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Pyrgulopsis fairbanksensis is a small snail that has a height of 2.5–3.4 millimetres (0.098–0.134 in) and a globose-turbinate, medium-sized shell. Its differentiated from other Pyrgulopsis in that its penial filament has a short lobe and elongate filament with the penial ornament consisting of small, circular terminal gland.
== References ==
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 111422.