Lithasia
Lithasia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Pleuroceridae |
Genus: | Lithasia Haldeman, 1840 [1] |
Lithasia is a genus of medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod molluscs in the family Pleuroceridae. This genus is endemic to rivers in the mid-southern United States.
Species[]
Species within the genus Lithasia include:
- Armigerous river snail (Lithasia armigera)
- Knobby rocksnail (Lithasia curta)
- Dutton's river snail (Lithasia duttoniana)
- Geniculate river snail (Lithasia geniculata)
- Jay's river snail (Lithasia jayana)
- Elk River file snail (Lithasia lima)
- Muddy rocksnail (Lithasia salebrosa)
- Varicose rocksnail (Lithasia verrucosa)
References[]
Categories:
- Pleuroceridae
- Taxa named by Samuel Stehman Haldeman
- Pleuroceridae stubs