Three Forks springsnail

The Three Forks springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis trivialis), 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. The common name is a reference to its endemic range at Three Forks, Arizona.

Three Forks springsnail

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
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Nymphophilinae
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P. trivialis
Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis trivialis
(Taylor, 1987)

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