Jay's river snail

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Jay's river snail
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
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 species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Cordeiro, J. (2011). "Lithasia jayana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011 e.T12130A3324223. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T12130A3324223.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.