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Lithasia
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Lithasia

Haldeman, 1840

Lithasia is a genus of medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This genus is endemic to rivers in the mid-southern United States.

Species

Species within the genus Lithasia include:

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