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Microphreatus saltillensis Czaja & Estrada-Rodríguez, 2025
1822599 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1822599)
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Czaja, A.; Cardoza-Martínez, G. F.; Becerra-López, J. L.; Estrada-Rodríguez, J. L.; Alonzo-Rojo, F.; Ávila-Rodríguez, V.; Valenzuela-García, A. A. (2025). World's smallest freshwater snail? A new genus and species of subterranean snail (Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) with extremely tiny shell from Los Chorros, Coahuila, northern Mexico. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5660(3): 413-425., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.7
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Note A groundwater fed spring (Manantial) inside...
Type locality A groundwater fed spring (Manantial) inside the recreation park “Los Chorros”, Sierra de Zapalinamé, municipality of Arteaga, ca. 8 km southwest of the town of Arteaga, near the city of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico (25°22′54.39′′N, 100°47′17.38′′W, 1,914 m a.s.l) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Microphreatus saltillensis Czaja & Estrada-Rodríguez, 2025. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1822599 on 2025-09-12
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Czaja, A.; Cardoza-Martínez, G. F.; Becerra-López, J. L.; Estrada-Rodríguez, J. L.; Alonzo-Rojo, F.; Ávila-Rodríguez, V.; Valenzuela-García, A. A. (2025). World's smallest freshwater snail? A new genus and species of subterranean snail (Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) with extremely tiny shell from Los Chorros, Coahuila, northern Mexico. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5660(3): 413-425., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.7
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Type locality A groundwater fed spring (Manantial) inside the recreation park “Los Chorros”, Sierra de Zapalinamé, municipality of Arteaga, ca. 8 km southwest of the town of Arteaga, near the city of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico (25°22′54.39′′N, 100°47′17.38′′W, 1,914 m a.s.l) [details]