Phreatodrobia
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| Phreatodrobia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Lithoglyphidae |
| Genus: | Phreatodrobia Hershler & Longley, 1986[1] |
| Diversity[1][2] | |
| 8 species | |
Phreatodrobia is a genus of very small or minute freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lithoglyphidae.[3]
The generic name Phreatodrobia is derived from the Greek word "phreatos" which means ground water, as in phreatic,[1] and from the suffix -drobia based on family name Hydrobiidae (where it was originally classified), which means "living in water".
