Pleurocera ampla
| Pleurocera ampla | |
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| Lectotype of Elimia ampla (MCZ 161735) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Elimia |
| Species: | E. ampla |
| Binomial name | |
| Elimia ampla (Anthony, 1854)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Melania ampla Anthony, 1854 (original combination) | |
Elimia ampla, common name Ample elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.
Distribution
This species is endemic to the Alabama, United States.[1]
See also
- Leptoxis ampla (Anthony, 1855) is another species with similar scientific name.
References
- 1 2 Cordeiro J. & Perez K. (2012). "Elimia ampla". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 February 2013.
- ↑ Anthony J. G. (1854). "Descriptions of new fluviatile shells of the genus Melania Lam., from western states of North America". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 6: 80-130. page 93-94. Plate II, figure 12.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elimia ampla. |
- "Elimia ampla". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service species profile
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