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Clappia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Lithoglyphidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Genus

Superfamily
  
Rissooidea

Scientific name
  
Clappia

Higher classification
  
Hydrobiidae

Clappia

Lower classifications
  
Clappia umbilicata, Cahaba pebblesnail

Clappia is a genus of small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lithoglyphidae.

Generic name Clappia is in honor of malacologist George Hubbard Clapp.

Species

There are two species within the genus Clappia:

  • Clappia cahabensis Clench, 1965 - Cahaba pebblesnail
  • Clappia umbilicata (Walker, 1904) - Umbilicate pebblesnail, type species as Clapppia clappi
  • Comparison of apertural views of both species:

    References

    Clappia Wikipedia