Fontigens
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Fontigens is a genus
of minute freshwater snail
s with an operculum
, aquatic
gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family
Hydrobiidae
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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 minute 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 with 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...
, 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...
gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae
Hydrobiidae, common name mud snails, is a large cosmopolitan taxonomic family of very small freshwater snails and brackish water snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.- Distribution :...
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Species
Species within the genus Fontigens include:- Tapered cavesnailTapered cavesnailThe tapered cavesnail, scientific name Fontigens holsingeri, is a species of gastropod in the Hydrobiidae family. It is endemic to the United States.-Source:* Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. .* Downloaded on 7 August 2007....
, Fontigens holsingeri - Greenbrier cavesnailGreenbrier cavesnailThe Greenbrier cavesnail, scientific name Fontigens turritella, is a species of very small or minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to the United States....
, Fontigens turritella