Domed ancylid
| Domed ancylid | |
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| Two views of two shells of the domed ancylid from the Green River and Cahaba River | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Planorboidea |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Rhodacmeinae |
| Genus: | Rhodacmea |
| Species: | R. elatior |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhodacmea elatior (Anthony, 1855) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Rhodacme elatior | |
The domed ancylid, scientific name Rhodacmea elatior,[2] is a species of small freshwater snail or limpet, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
Distribution
This freshwater limpet is endemic to the United States.
References
- ↑ Bogan A. E. (1996). Rhodacme elatior. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ↑ Ó Foighil D., Li J., Lee T., Johnson P., Evans R. & Burch J. B. (2011). "Conservation Genetics of a Critically Endangered Limpet Genus and Rediscovery of an Extinct Species". PLoS ONE 6(5): e20496. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020496.
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