Physa skinneri
Physa skinneri, common name the glass physa, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Physidae.
Description
The shell of Physa skinneri is thin, narrowly ovoid, to ovoid-fusiform, with an obtusely rounded apex. The spire is blunt with up to four weakly convex whorls separated by a shallow, broadly elongated suture. Maximum shell length is about 8.8 mm. The aperture is about 60% of the overall shell length, elongate-oval, rounded anteriorly, acute posteriorly, widest about a third of the length from the anterior end. Outer lip thin, sharp, sometimes with a white band of callus thickening within, convex in the direction of growth.Distribution
This species occurs in:- Canada and the northern United States. Museum specimens are known from Alaska, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, North and South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. The holotype specimen was a fossil from Beaver Co., Oklahoma. The species may be Holarctic in distribution based on shells found in Ukraine.
- Montana USA
- Utah, USA