Tapered cavesnail
| Tapered cavesnail | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Fontigens |
| Species: | F. holsingeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Fontigens holsingeri Hubricht, 1976 | |
The tapered cavesnail, scientific name Fontigens holsingeri, 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.
References
- Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Fontigens holsingeri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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