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Ohio pebblesnail

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4897526 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ohio pebblesnail (Somatogyrus integra) is a species of very small freshwater snail with an operculum. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Ohio River and tributaries in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Pennsylvania in the United States.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ohio pebblesnail” as species of mollusc. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ohio, pebblesnail and species.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current 48-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ohio, pebblesnail and species providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4897526. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ohio pebblesnail” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.