Pleurocera ampla

Pleurocera ampla
Lectotype of Elimia ampla (MCZ 161735)
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Pleuroceridae
Genus:	Elimia
Species:	E. ampla
Binomial name
Elimia ampla (Anthony, 1854) [2]
Synonyms
Melania amplaAnthony, 1854 (original combination) Elimia ampla(Anthony, 1854)

Elimia ampla, common name ample elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Alabama, United States. ^[1]

See also

• Leptoxis ampla (Anthony, 1855) is another species with similar scientific name.

References

1. Cordeiro, J.; Perez, K. (2012). "Elimia ampla". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012 e.T7582A3138432. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T7582A3138432.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. Anthony J. G. (1854). "Descriptions of new fluviatile shells of the genus Melania Lam., from western states of North America". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 6: 80-130. page 93-94. Plate II, figure 12.

External links

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service species profile