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Smoke Creek pyrg.

Pyrgulopsis eremica

Classification

Pyrgulopsis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae. Etymology The name Pyrgulopsis is composed from Pyrgula, another genus of snail, and opsis = aspect of. Description Generic characters of the genus Pyrgulopsis are: the shell is minute, conically turreted, somewhat elongated, imperforate and unicarinate.

Distribution

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United States of America · 2