Kingdom Animalia Family Planorbidae Scientific name Amphigyra alabamensis Higher classification Amphigyra | Superfamily Planorboidea Genus Amphigyra Phylum Mollusca Rank Species | |
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Similar Coosa elktoe, Clappia umbilicata, Cahaba pebblesnail, Carolina elktoe, Molluscs | ||
The shoal sprite (Amphigyra alabamensis) was a species of minute, air-breathing, freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. This species was endemic to Alabama, but it is now extinct.
Original description
Species Amphigyra alabamensis was originally described by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1906.
Type locality is Coosa River near or in Wetumpka, Alabama.
Pilsbry's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
References
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