Spiral hornsnail

Spiral hornsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Species: P. brumbyi
Binomial name
Pleurocera brumbyi
I. Lea, 1852

The spiral hornsnail, scientific name Pleurocera brumbyi, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (1996). Pleurocera brumbyi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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