Turricaspia
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| Turricaspia | |
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| Turricaspia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Hydrobiidae |
| Genus: | Turricaspia B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915[1] |
Turricaspia is a genus of aquatic snails which includes marine snails, brackish water snails and freshwater snails which all have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.[2] Turricaspia is the type genus of the Turricaspiinae, which is a synonym of Pyrgulinae.[2]
