Pyrgulopsis licina

Pyrgulopsis licina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Genus:	Pyrgulopsis
Species:	P. licina
Binomial name
	Pyrgulopsis licina; (Hershler, Liu & Bradford, 2013)

Pyrgulopsis licina, is a species of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to Ash Meadows along the Amargosa River in Nevada, United States. Its natural habitat is springs.

Description[]

P. licina is a small snail that has a maximum height of 2.4 millimetres (0.094 in) and narrow conical shell. It has an absence of glands on its penis and a strongly curved penial filament leading to its name P. licina from the Latin licinus, meaning bent or turned upward.

References[]

Hershler, Robert; Liu, Hsiu-Ping; Bradford, Corbin (9 September 2013). "Systematics of a widely distributed western North American springsnail, Pyrgulopsis micrococcus (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae), with descriptions of three new congeners". ZooKeys (330): 27–52. doi:10.3897/zookeys.330.5852. PMC 3800804. PMID 24146554. Retrieved 21 June 2017. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)

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