Anchialine pool snail

The anchialine pool snail, scientific name Neritilia hawaiiensis, is a species living in brackish estuaries and in anchialine pools.^[2] These snails have an operculum, and are aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritiliidae.

Anchialine pool snail
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Neritiliidae
Genus:	Neritilia
Species:	N. hawaiiensis
Binomial name
Neritilia hawaiiensis Kay, 1979

Distribution

This species is endemic to the islands of Hawaii, United States, and lives only in brackish estuaries and in anchialine pools,^[2] which are marine pools that have no surface connection with the ocean but that are salty and that fluctuate in level with the tides.