Phreatodrobia Hershler & Longley 1986

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]

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]

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