Corded purg

Corded purg
Drawing of lateral view of the shell of Pyrgulopsis nevadensis.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Pyrgulopsis
Species:
P. nevadensis
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis nevadensis
(Stearns, 1883)[2]
Synonyms

The corded purg, scientific name Pyrgulopsis nevadensis, is an extinct species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

Pyrgulopsis nevadensis is the type species of the genus Pyrgulopsis.[3]

  1. ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Pyrgulopsis nevadensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T40048A10311237. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T40048A10311237.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Stearns R. E. C. 1883. Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci.
  3. ^ Call R. E. & Pilsbry H. A. 1886. On Pyrgulopsis, a new genus of rissoid mollusk, with description of two new forms. Proceeding Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, volume V., page 9-14. Plate II., figures 1-10.