Pleurocera alabamensis
The mud elimia, scientific name Pleurocera alabamensis, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, a gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.
| Pleurocera alabamensis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Pleurocera |
| Species: | P. alabamensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pleurocera alabamensis (I. Lea, 1861) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Elimia alabamensis (I. Lea, 1861) | |
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.
- 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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