Chupadera springsnail


The Chupadera springsnail, scientific name Pyrgulopsis chupaderae, is a species of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.
This species' natural habitat is springs. It is endemic to Willow Spring at the south end of the Chupadera Mountains, about west of
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge headquarters, New Mexico, United States.

Description

P. chupaderae is a small snail that has a height of and an ovate-conic to elongate-conic, small to medium-sized shell. Its differentiated from other Pyrgulopsis in that its penial filament has a medium length lobe and medium length filament with the penial ornament consisting of an elongate penial gland; curved, transverse terminal gland; and ventral gland.