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Tapered cavesnail
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Fontigens
Species: F. holsingeri
Binomial name
Fontigens holsingeri
Hubricht, 1976

The tapered cavesnail, scientific name Fontigens holsingeri, 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 (1996). "Fontigens holsingeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T8640A12924169. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T8640A12924169.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
Taxon identifiers
Fontigens holsingeri


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