Pyrgula

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Pyrgula
Photo of apertural view of shells of Pyrgula annulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Pyrgula
Cristofori & Jan, 1832[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Pyrgidium Toumouër, 1869
  • Pirgula Brusina, 1881
  • Pyrgiscus Herrmannsen, 1848

Pyrgula is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.[3][4]

Pyrgula is the type genus of the subfamily Pyrgulinae.[3] Pyrgula annulata is the type species of the genus Pyrgula.

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