Elimia showalteri

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Elimia showalteri
Lectotype of Elimia showalteri (ANSP 26881).png
Lectotype of Elimia showalteri (ANSP 26881)
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Pleuroceridae
Genus:
Elimia
Species:
E. showalteri
Binomial name
Elimia showalteri
(I. Lea, 1860)

Elimia showalteri, common name the compact elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

Shell description[]

Elimia showalteri has a large, robust, smooth shell boldly colored brown and/or green shell.[2]

Anatomy[]

Elimia showalteri is agill-breathing snail. It is genetically very similar to the lacy elimia Elimia crenatella.[3]

Distribution[]

This snail lives in the United States.

Ecology[]

Habitat[]

Compact elimia are found grazing individually throughout shoal habitats.[2]

Life cycle[]

Embryos develop into Trochophore larvae before eventually becoming Veliger larvae. [4]

Feeding habits[]

These snails are known to graze individually in Shoal habitats. [2]

References[]

  1. ^ IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 January 2009.
  2. ^ a b c U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2005. Recovery Plan for 6 Mobile River Basin Aquatic Snails. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi. 46 pp, pp. 7-8.
  3. ^ Lydeard C., W.E. Holznagel, J. Garner, P. Hartfield, & J. M. Pierson. 1997. A molecular phylogeny of Mobile River drainage basin pleurocerid snails (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7(1):117-128.
  4. ^ "Elimia showalteri, Compact Elimia". Search SeaLifeBase. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
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