Amnicola
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Amnicola is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of very small freshwater snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s which have an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...

. Amnicola species are aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...

 prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Amnicolidae
Amnicolidae
Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.This family is in the superfamily Rissooidea and in the clade Littorinimorpha...

 according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

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Amnicola is the type genus of the family Amnicolidae.

Species

Species in the genus Amnicola include:
  • Amnicola aldrichi (Call & Beecher, 1886) - Hoosier amnicola
    • Amnicola aldrichi antroecetes
  • Amnicola bakerianus Pilsbry, 1917
  • Amnicola browni Carpenter, 1872 - slender duskysnail
  • Amnicola clarki Pilsbry, 1917
  • Amnicola cora
    Amnicola cora
    Amnicola cora is a species of very small freshwater snail which has an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda ....

    Hubricht, 1979 - Foushee cavesnail
  • Amnicola dalli
    Amnicola dalli
    Amnicola dalli, common name the peninsula amnicola, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.The specific epithet is in honor of W. H...

    Call, 1884 - peninsula amnicola
  • Amnicola decisus Haldeman, 1845
  • Amnicola emarginata Kuster, 1852
  • Amnicola granum (Say, 1822) - squat duskysnail
  • Amnicola greggi Pilsbry, 1935 - Rocky Mountain duskysnail
  • Amnicola integra Say, 1821
  • Amnicola limosus
    Amnicola limosus
    Amnicola limosus, common name the mud amnicola, is a species of very small aquatic snail, an operculate gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.-Distribution:...

    (Say, 1817) - mud amnicola
  • Amnicola missouriensis
    Amnicola missouriensis
    Amnicola missouriensis, common name the Missouri amnicola, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.- Shell description :...

    Pilsbry, 1898 - Missouri amnicola
  • Amnicola pallida Haldeman, 1842
  • Amnicola pilsbry Walker, 1906 - lake duskysnail
  • Amnicola proserpina Hubricht, 1940 - Proserpine cavesnail
  • Amnicola pupoideus (Gould, 1841) - pupa duskysnail
  • Amnicola retromargo F. G. Thompson, 1968 - indented duskysnail
  • Amnicola rhombostoma F. G. Thompson, 1968 - squaremouth amnicola
  • Amnicola stygius Hubricht, 1971 - stygian amnicola
  • Amnicola walkeri
    Amnicola walkeri
    Amnicola walkeri, common name Canadian duskysnail, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.The name is in honor of Mr. Bryant Walker.- Shell description :...

    Pilsbry, 1898 - Canadian duskysnail
  • Amnicola winkleyi Pilsbry, 1912
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