Lithasia

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Kingdom Animalia Family Pleuroceridae Phylum Mollusca Rank Genus		Superfamily Cerithioidea Scientific name Lithasia Higher classification Pleuroceridae
Lower classifications Armigerous river snail, Varicose rocksnail

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

Lithasia Wikipedia

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