Pleurocera ampla

Pleurocera ampla
Lectotype of Elimia ampla (MCZ 161735)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
Species: E. ampla
Binomial name
Elimia ampla
(Anthony, 1854)[2]
Synonyms

Melania ampla Anthony, 1854 (original combination)
Elimia ampla (Anthony, 1854)

Elimia ampla, common name ample elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Alabama, United States.[1]

See also

  • Leptoxis ampla (Anthony, 1855) is another species with similar scientific name.

References

  1. 1 2 Cordeiro J. & Perez K. (2012). "Elimia ampla". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 February 2013.
  2. ↑ Anthony J. G. (1854). "Descriptions of new fluviatile shells of the genus Melania Lam., from western states of North America". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 6: 80-130. page 93-94. Plate II, figure 12.


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