Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Rissooidea Subfamily Nymphophilinae Scientific name Pyrgulopsis deserta Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Family Hydrobiidae Genus Pyrgulopsis Higher classification Pyrgulopsis | |
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Similar Pyrgulopsis, Molluscs, Tryonia | ||
Pyrgulopsis deserta is a species of freshwater snail in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails. It is known by the common names desert springsnail, Virgin springsnail, and St. George snail. It occurs in southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona in the United States.
Original description
Pyrgulopsis deserta was originally described as Amnicola deserta by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1916.
Pilsbry's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
References
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