Phantom cave snail
(Redirected from Pyrgulopsis texana)
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| Species: | P. texana
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The phantom cave snail or phantom cavesnail (Pyrgulopsis texana) is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod in the family Hydrobiidae.
Distribution
This species is endemic to the lower Pecos River basin, Texas, the United States.[2]
Genus transfer
When originally described in 1935, the phantom cave snail was assigned to the genus Cochliopa. Following a detailed examination of shell and anatomical characteristics along with genetic sequencing it was transferred to the genus Pyrgulopsis in 2010.[2]
References
- ^ Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Cochliopa texana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
- ^ a b c Hershler R., Liu H.-P. & Lang B. K. (2010). "Transfer of Cochliopa texana to Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae) and description of a third congener from the lower Pecos River basin". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(3): 245-256. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyq002.
Further reading
- Dundee D. S. & Dundee H. A. (1969). "Notes Concerning Two Texas Molluscs, Cochliopa texana Pilsbry and Lyrodes cheatumi Pilsbry (Mollusca: Hydrobiidae)". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 88(2): 205-210. JSTOR
- Cole G. A. (1976). "A New Amphipod Crustacean, Gammarus hyalelloides n. sp., from Texas". Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 95(1): 80-85. JSTOR.
External links
- http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode=G00X
- http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/chihuahuan_freshwater.cfmError: "Q22062009" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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