Skirted hornsnail

The skirted hornsnail, scientific name Pleurocera pyrenella, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

Skirted hornsnail

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Pleuroceridae
Genus:
Pleurocera
Species:
P. pyrenella
Binomial name
Pleurocera pyrenella
Conrad, 1834

References
  1. Cordeiro, J. & Perez, K. (2011). "Pleurocera pyrenella". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2011: e.T17703A7360948. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T17703A7360948.en. Retrieved 13 December 2017.


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