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Pyrgula

Pyrgula
Pyrgula annulata shell.jpg
Photo of apertural view of shells of Pyrgula annulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Pyrgulinae
Genus: Pyrgula
Cristofori & Jan, 1832
Synonyms
  • Pyrgidium Toumouër, 1869
  • Pirgula Brusina, 1881
  • Pyrgiscus Herrmannsen, 1848

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Pyrgula is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae.

Pyrgula is the type genus of the subfamily Pyrgulinae.Pyrgula annulata is the type species of the genus Pyrgula.

Species within the genus Pyrgula include:



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