Cuatro Cienegas Pyrg

Pyrgulopsis minckleyi

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae

Nymphophilus minckleyi is a species of very small freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. Distribution This species is endemic to Cuatro Ciénegas valley, in the Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico. Ecology Predators of Mexithauma quadripaludium include the cichlid fish Herichthys minckleyi.

Distribution

Cuatro Cienegas Pyrg — (c) Johel Chaves-Campos, Steven G. Johnson & C. Darrin Hulsey, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Mexico · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Johel Chaves-Campos, Steven G. Johnson & C. Darrin Hulsey, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionPyrgulopsis minkleyi, Wikipedia contributors

Cuatro Cienegas Pyrg

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