Mimic cavesnail

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Mimic cavesnail
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Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe) [2]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Phreatodrobia
Species:
P. imitata
Binomial name
Phreatodrobia imitata
Hershler & Longley, 1986 [3]

The mimic cavesnail, scientific name Phreatodrobia imitata, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. [4]

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Distribution

This species is endemic to Texas in the United States, [1] where it is known from only two wells that penetrate the Edwards Aquifer. [2] Type locality is Verstraeten Well, Bexar County, Texas. [3]

Description

The shell has 3.3-3.5 whorls. [3] The average height of the shell is 1.01-1.03 mm. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bogan, A.E. (1996). "Phreatodrobia imitata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T17077A6797152. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T17077A6797152.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Phreatodrobia imitata". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Hershler R. & Longley G. (1986). "Phreatic hydrobiids (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer region, south-central Texas". Malacologia 27(1): 127-172. page 151.
  4. Hershler R. & Thompson F. G. (1990). "Antrorbis breweri, a new genus and species of hydrobiid cavesnail (Gastropoda) from Coosa River Basin, northeastern Alabama". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(l): 197-204. PDF.