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Pygmy pebblesnail
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)

Possibly Extinct  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species: S. pygmaeus
Binomial name
Somatogyrus pygmaeus
Walker, 1909

The pygmy pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus pygmaeus, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae. This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States. Its natural habitat is the Coosa River.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Somatogyrus pygmaeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T20365A9192035. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T20365A9192035.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Somatogyrus pygmaeus". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
Taxon identifiers
Somatogyrus pygmaeus
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