Reverse pebblesnail
Species of gastropod / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The reverse pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus alcoviensis, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Neotaenioglossa |
Family: | Lithoglyphidae |
Genus: | Somatogyrus |
Species: | †S. alcoviensis |
Binomial name | |
†Somatogyrus alcoviensis Krieger, 1972 | |
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This species is endemic to Newton County, Georgia[3] in the United States, where it occurs in the Alcovy and Yellow Rivers. It was believed extinct until it was rediscovered in a 2000 survey.[1]