Stocky pebblesnail

Stocky pebblesnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species: S. crassus
Binomial name
Somatogyrus crassus
Walker, 1904

The stocky pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus crassus, is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers.

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