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

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

  1. Bogan A. E. (1996). Elimia alabamensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  2. 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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