Species: Fossaria exigua
Graceful Fossaria
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Basommatophora
Family
Lymnaeidae
Genus
Fossaria
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Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Invertebrates - Mollusks - Freshwater Snails
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Mollusca - Gastropoda - Basommatophora - Lymnaeidae - Fossaria - based on observational similarity (see Hubendick, 1951).
Ecology and Life History
Habitat Type Description
Freshwater
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5Q
Global Status Last Reviewed
2008-10-09
Global Status Last Changed
1999-09-14
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - It occurs throughout the St. Lawrence River system, south to Alabama in the Mississippi-Missouri river basins, north to the Hudson Bay lowlands in northern Ontario, and west to the Red River and Lake Winnipeg region in Minnesota and Manitoba (Burch, 1989).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)