Heterogen longispira

Heterogen longispira is a species of operculate freshwater snail, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.

Heterogen longispira
shells of Heterogen longispira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Viviparoidea
Family:
Viviparidae
Genus:
Heterogen

Species:
H. longispira
Binomial name
Heterogen longispira
(E. A. Smith, 1886)

Heterogen longispira is the only species in the genus Heterogen.

Distribution

Heterogen longispira is endemic to Lake Biwa, Japan.

References
  1. Annandale T. N. (1921). Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 6: 399.
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