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Reverse pebblesnail
Status iucn3.1 EX.svg
Extinct  (outdated [1] )  (IUCN 3.1) [2]
Status TNC G1.svg
Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe) [3]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species:
†S. alcoviensis
Binomial name
†Somatogyrus alcoviensis
Krieger, 1972

The reverse pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus alcoviensis, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species is endemic to Newton County, Georgia [3] in the United States, where it occurs in the Alcovy and Yellow Rivers. It was believed extinct until it was rediscovered in a 2000 survey. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Watson, C.N. Jr (2000). R.A. Tankersley; D.I. Warmolts; G.T. Watters; B.J. Armitage; P.D. Johnson; R.S. Butler (eds.). "Results of a survey for selected species of Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda) in Georgia and Florida". Freshwater Mollusk Symposia Proceedings. Ohio Biological Survey, Columbus, Ohio: 233–244.
  2. ↑ Bogan, A.E. (2000). "Somatogyrus alcoviensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2000 e.T40053A10311559. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T40053A10311559.en . Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Somatogyrus alcoviensis". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 17 February 2023.


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