• Source: Aphaostracon asthenes

The Blue Spring aphaostracon or Blue Spring hydrobe, scientific name Aphaostracon asthenes, is a species of minute freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Cochliopidae.




Distribution


This species is endemic to Blue Spring in Florida.




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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