Marstonia agarhecta

Marstonia agarhecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Nymphophilinae
Genus: Marstonia
Species: M. agarhecta
Binomial name
Marstonia agarhecta
(F. G. Thompson, 1969)
Synonyms

Pyrgulopsis agarhecta F. G. Thompson, 1969

Marstonia agarhecta, common name Ocmulgee marstonia, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to Georgia, the United States.[1] Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). Pyrgulopsis agarhecta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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