original description
Czaja, A.; Cardoza-Martínez, G. F.; Meza‑Sánchez, I.; Estrada-Rodríguez, J. L.; Saenz‑Mata, J.; Becerra-López, J.; Romero-Méndez, U.; Estrada‑Arellano, J. R.; Garza-Martínez, M. Á.; Dávila Paulín, J. A. (2019). New genus, two new species and new records of subterranean freshwater snails (Caenogastropoda; Cochliopidae and Lithoglyphidae) from Coahuila and Durango, Northern Mexico. <em>Subterranean Biology.</em> 29: 89-102., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.29.34123
page(s): 92 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The genus name derives from the word phreatos (referring to the subterranean habitat) and from Mascogos, an afrodescendant ethnic group of Coahuila which escaped the threat of slavery in the United States and lives since 1852 in the Sabinas/Álamos River area [details]