Clappia (gastropod)

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Clappia
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Drawing of apertural view of the shell and its operculum of Clappia umbilicata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Genus: Clappia
Walker, 1909 [1]

Clappia is a genus of small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lithoglyphidae. [2] [3]

Generic name Clappia is in honor of malacologist George Hubbard Clapp. [1]

Species

There are two [3] species within the genus Clappia:

Synonyms

Comparison of apertural views of both species:

Clappia cahabensis Clappia cahabensis shell.png
Clappia cahabensis
Clappia umbilicata Clappia umbilicata shell.png
Clappia umbilicata

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Walker B. (1909). "New Amnicolidae from Alabama". The Nautilus 22(9): 85-90. page 89.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Clappia B. Walker, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=887026 on 2022-04-22
  3. 1 2 3 4 Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.