Lithasia
| Lithasia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Lithasia Haldeman, 1840 |
Lithasia is a genus of medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This genus is endemic to rivers in the mid-southern United States.
Species
Species within the genus Lithasia include:
- armigerous river snail (Lithasia armigera)
- knobby rocksnail (Lithasia curta)
- Dutton's river snail (Lithasia duttoniana)
- geniculate river snail (Lithasia geniculata)
- Jay's river snail (Lithasia jayana)
- Elk River file snail (Lithasia lima)
- muddy rocksnail (Lithasia salebrosa)
- varicose rocksnail (Lithasia verrucosa)
References
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