Chupadera springsnail

Chupadera springsnail
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Genus:	Pyrgulopsis
Species:	P. chupaderae
Binomial name
	Pyrgulopsis chupaderae; Taylor, 1987

The Chupadera springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis chupaderae, is a species of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.

This species' natural habitat is springs. It is endemic to Willow Spring at the south end of the Chupadera Mountains, about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge headquarters, New Mexico, United States.[1]

Description

P. chupaderae is a small snail that has a height of 1.6–2.8 millimetres (0.063–0.110 in) and an ovate-conic to elongate-conic, small to medium-sized shell. 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 an elongate penial gland; curved, transverse terminal gland; and ventral gland.[1]

References

Hershler, Robert (1994). A Review of the North American Freshwater Snail Genus Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Pyrgulopsis chupaderae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

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[review-1] Hershler, Robert (1994). A Review of the North American Freshwater Snail Genus Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.