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Montezuma Well springsnail

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The Montezuma Well springsnail (Pyrgulopsis montezumensis) is a species of freshwater snail in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails. [1]

18 relations: Animal, Caenogastropoda, Carbon dioxide, Endemism, Freshwater snail, Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae, Hypsogastropoda, Limestone, Littorinimorpha, Mollusca, Montezuma Well, Pyrgulopsis, Rissooidea, Sexual dimorphism, Spring (hydrology), Travertine, Yavapai County, Arizona.

Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Caenogastropoda

Caenogastropoda (from Ancient Greek caeno- meaning "recent") is a taxonomic clade, a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Freshwater snail

Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in freshwater.

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Gastropoda

The gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca, called Gastropoda.

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Hydrobiidae

Hydrobiidae, commonly known as mud snails, is a large cosmopolitan family of very small freshwater and brackish water snails with an operculum; they are in the order Littorinimorpha.

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Hypsogastropoda

Hypsogastropoda is a clade containing marine gastropods within the clade Caenogastropoda.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Littorinimorpha

Littorinimorpha is a large clade of snails, gastropods, consisting primarily of sea snails (marine species), and also in addition some freshwater snails (aquatic species) and land snails (terrestrial species).

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Montezuma Well

Montezuma Well (ʼHakthkyayva), a detached unit of Montezuma Castle National Monument, is a natural limestone sinkhole near the town of Rimrock, Arizona, through which some of water emerge each day from an underground spring.

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Pyrgulopsis

Pyrgulopsis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

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Rissooidea

Rissooidea, originally named Rissoacea by Gray, 1847, is a taxonomic superfamily of small and minute marine snails, belonging to the clade Littorinimorpha.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.

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Spring (hydrology)

A spring is any natural situation where water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface.

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Travertine

Travertine is a form of limestone deposited by mineral springs, especially hot springs.

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Yavapai County, Arizona

Yavapai County is near the center of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma_Well_springsnail

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