Phreatodrobia

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]

Phreatodrobia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Lithoglyphidae
Genus:	Phreatodrobia Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
Diversity[1][2]
8 species

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".

Species

Species within the genus Phreatodrobia include:

• Phreatodrobia conica Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
• Phreatodrobia coronae Hershler, 1987[2]
• Phreatodrobia imitata Hershler & Longley, 1986[1] - mimic cavesnail
• Phreatodrobia micra (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1906) - type species[1]
• Phreatodrobia nugax (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1906)[1]
  • Phreatodrobia nugax inclinata Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
• Phreatodrobia plana Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
• Phreatodrobia punctata Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]
• Phreatodrobia rotunda Hershler & Longley, 1986[1]

References

1. Hershler R. & Longley G. (1986). "Phreatic hydrobiids (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer region, south-central Texas". Malacologia 27(1): 127-172. page 132.
2. Hershler & Longley (1987). "Phreatodrobia coronae, a New Species of Cave Snail from Southwestern Texas". The Nautilus 101(3): 133-139.
3. Hershler R. & Thompson F. G. (1990). "Antrorbis breweri, a new genus and species of hydrobiid cavesnail (Gastropoda) from Coosa River Basin, northeastern Alabama". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(l): 197-204. PDF.