Pleurocera alabamensis
| Pleurocera alabamensis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Pleurocera |
| Species: | P. alabamensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleurocera alabamensis (I. Lea, 1861) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Elimia alabamensis (I. Lea, 1861) | |
The mud elimia, scientific name Pleurocera alabamensis, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.
This species was known as Elimia alabamensis up to 2011, when Dillon (2011)[2] synonymized Elimia with the genus Pleurocera.[2]
References
- ↑ Bogan A. E. (1996). Elimia alabamensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
- 1 2 Dillon R. T. (2011). "Robust Shell Phenotype is a Local Response to Stream Size in the Genus Pleurocera (Rafinesque, 1818)". Malacologia 53(2): 265-277. doi:10.4002/040.053.0205.
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