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Corded Pyrg
Pyrgulopsis nevadensis
The corded pyrg, scientific name Pyrgulopsis nevadensis, is an extinct species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.
Pyrgulopsis nevadensis is the type species of the genus Pyrgulopsis.
From the article Corded pyrg on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Jaw is thin and membranaceous. Detailed description of radula was provided by Charles Emerson Beecher in 1886 (page 11-12).
Wikipedia: “Anatomy”
Range & habitat
It was endemic to the United States. This species had a limited distribution, occurring only, so far as present information goes, in North-western Nevada, in Walker Lake and Pyramid Lake. Living forms have been collected only in the last-named locality.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Pyrgulopsis nevadensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 111432.