Pyrgulopsis deserta is a species of freshwater snail in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails. It is known by the common names desert springsnail, Virgin springsnail, and St. George snail.Pyrgulopsis deserta. Invertebrate Abstracts. Arizona Game and Fish Department. It occurs in southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona in the United States.Hershler, R. 1994. A review of the North American freshwater snail genus Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 554: 115 pp. Pyrgulopsis deserta at pages 33-35.
Original description Pyrgulopsis deserta was originally described as Amnicola deserta by Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1916.
Pilsbry's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
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