Fluminicola nuttallianus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Lithoglyphidae |
| Genus: | Fluminicola |
| Species: | F. nuttallianus
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Fluminicola nuttallianus, common name dusky pebblesnail, is a possibly extinct[1] species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Lithoglyphidae.[4]
Fluminicola nuttallianus is the type species of the genus Fluminicola.[3]
Distribution
This species occurs (or occurred) in Oregon, USA.[1]
Description
Fluminicola nuttallianus has several (not exactly counted) rows of teeth on its radula.[5] Each row has 2-3 central basocones, 4-5 central octocones, 7-8 lateral teeth, ca. 16 inner marginal teeth and 12-13 outer marginal teeth.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Fluminicola nuttallianus. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 28 May 2011.
- ^ Lea I. (1838). "Description of New Freshwater and Land Shells". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 6: 1-154. page 101, plate XXIII, figure 89.
- ^ a b Hershler R. & Frest T. J. (1996). "A review of the North American freshwater snail genus Fluminicola (Hydrobiidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 583: 1-41. PDF.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ a b Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.