''Aphaostracon'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of very small or minute

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...

snail A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...

s in the family Cochliopidae that have an operculum.Bouchet, P. (2014). Aphaostracon F. G. Thompson, 1968. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=729790 on 2014-11-16 ''Aphaostracon'' species are endemic to restricted areas in Florida, often to a single spring or spring run.

Species

This genus includes the following species: One or more additional ''Aphaostracon'' species have been reported from springs in Florida, including

Bugg Spring Bugg Spring is a second magnitude spring near Okahumpka in Lake County, Florida. The spring has a 400 feet wide pool with little vegetation which goes down to 170 to 175 feet. Its outflow runs north as Bugg Spring Run into the Helena Run from L ...

, De Leon Springs, and Green Springs. The snails from the three springs have not described in an authoritative publication, and it is not known if they belong to one, two, or three species.

References

* Hershler R. & Thompson F.G. (1992) ''A review of the aquatic gastropod subfamily Cochliopinae (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae).'' Malacological Review suppl. 5: 1-140.

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