Pyrgophorus

Pyrgophorus
Drawing of two apertural views and one lateral view of shells of Pyrgophorus spinosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cochliopidae
Genus:	Pyrgophorus Ancey, 1888

Pyrgophorus is a genus of very small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.

Species

Species in the genus Pyrgophorus include:[1]

• Pyrgophorus cisterninus (Küster, 1852)
• Pyrgophorus parvulus (Guilding, 1828)
• Pyrgophorus platyrachis (Thompson, 1968) - serrate crownsnail
• Pyrgophorus spinosus (Call & Pilsbry, 1886) - spiny crownsnail
• Pyrgophorus coronatus (Pfeiffer, 1840)

References

1. Pyrgophorus. ITIS, accessed 26 July 2009.