Kingman springsnail

Species of gastropod

Kingman springsnail

Conservation status

Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Littorinimorpha
Family:  | Hydrobiidae
Genus:  | Pyrgulopsis
Species:  |

P. conica

Binomial name
Pyrgulopsis conica

Hershler, 1988

The Kingman springsnail (Pyrgulopsis conica) is a species of freshwater snail in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails. It is endemic to Mohave County, Arizona, in the United States.[2]

It lives in aquatic habitat in the Black Mountains near Kingman, Arizona. It is known from only three springs,[3] where it may be threatened by loss of groundwater. A single drought event could threaten the entire population of the species.[1]

## Description[edit]

Pyrgulopsis conica has a shell that is 1.8–2.7 millimetres (0.071–0.106 in) tall. It is convex in shape to rounded with shoulders. Its differentiated from other Pyrgulopsis in that its penial filament has a medium length lobe and medium length filament with the penial ornament consisting of a near-circular terminal gland.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Cordeiro, J.; Seddon, M. (2012). "Pyrgulopsis conica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T18963A1929993. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T18963A1929993.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. ^ NatureServe. 2014. Pyrgulopsis conica. NatureServe Explorer. Version 7.1. Accessed September 11, 2014.
3. ^ Pyrgulopsis conica. Invertebrate Abstracts. Arizona Game and Fish Department.
4. ^ Hershler, Robert (1994). A Review of the North American Freshwater Snail Genus Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Taxon identifiers

Pyrgulopsis conica|

* Wikidata: Q3142954
* BOLD: 27483
* CoL: 7SYSH
* EoL: 589059
* GBIF: 2300035
* iNaturalist: 111417
* IRMNG: 11407240
* ITIS: 568195
* IUCN: 18963
* NatureServe: 2.108699
* NCBI: 297789
* SeaLifeBase: 2145
* WoRMS: 1347230