Classification

Specific Name: Stagnicola woodruffi
Common Name: Coldwater Pond Snail (EOL.org)
Translated Meaning: Stagn- stagnant. These snails typically live in stagnant environments.

Domain- Eurcarya (Wahlert & Holland 1999)
Explanation: Stagnicola woodruffi are multi-cellular organisms whose cells characteristically contain a membrane-bound nucleus or nuclei (Hickman 2009)

Kingdom- Animalia (Wahlert & Holland 1999)
Explanation: Stagnicola woodruffi ingest their food and digest it internally and are also invertebrates (Hickman 2009)

Phylum- Mollusca (Baker 1930)
Explanation: Stagnicola woodruffi is bilaterally symmetrical, has a coelom as well as an open circulatory system (Hickman 2009)

Class- Gastropoda (Baker 1930)
Explanation: Stagnicola woodruffi develops through a trochophore and veliger larval stage and experiences developmental torsion and spiral coiling (Hickman 2009)

Order- Pulmonata (Baker 1930)
Explanation: Stagnicola woodruffi has a mantle cavity which forms it's lungs due to the fact that it lacks gills. It also is dioecious and hermaphroditic and experiences direct development. (Hickman 2009) (EOL.org)

Family- Lymnaeide (Baker 1930)
Explanation: Stagnicola woodruffi has flat, wide, triangular tentacles, with a head divided into two flat lateral lobes. It is also a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite (EOL.org)

Genus- Stagnicola (Baker 1930)
Explanation: Stagnicola woodruffi is somewhat colorful (Solem 1974)

Species- Stagnicola woodruffi (ilmollusks.html)
Explanation: Stangnicola woodruffi has a very short, broad spine, with rapidly increasing and tumid whorls as well as a broad, flat inner lip without a plait (Baker 1930)

Wondering where these the species Stagnicola Woodruffi can be found? Check out the Habitat section!