Corpulent hornsnail

Corpulent hornsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Species: P. corpulenta
Binomial name
Pleurocera corpulenta
Anthony, 1854

The corpulent hornsnail, scientific name Pleurocera corpulenta, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (1996). Pleurocera corpulenta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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