Jay's river snail

Jay's river snail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Lithasia
Species: L. jayana
Binomial name
Lithasia jayana
I. Lea, 1841

Jay's river snail also known as the rugose rocksnail, scientific name Lithasia jayana, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae, the hornsnails. This speciet is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Cordeiro, J. (2011). "Lithasia jayana". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2011: e.T12130A3324223. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T12130A3324223.en. Retrieved 5 December 2017.


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