Common name of Pyrgulopsis stearnsiana
 
Common Name Yaqui springsnail
Language English
Type AFS
Official Trade Name No
Rank 1 - (Legal common name (unique))
Country United States (contiguous states)
Locality
Ref. Turgeon, D.D., J.F. Quinn Jr., A.E. Bogan, E.V. Coan, F.G. Hochberg, W.G. Lyons, P.M. Mikkelsen, R.J. Neves, C.F.E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F.G. Thompson, M. Vecchione and J.D. Willams, 1998
Life Stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core behavior
1st Modifier habitat/ecology
2nd Modifier locality/area
Remarks 'snail', from Old High German 'snahhan', i.e., 'to creep'; 'Yaqui', from Spanish America, 'hiaqui', i.e., the Yaqui River, also pertains to the First Nations people of Sonora, Mexico.
Glossary [ e.g. cnidaria]
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