Rhodacmea elatior

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Rhodacmea elatior
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Two views of two shells of the domed ancylid from the Green River and Cahaba River
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Genus: Rhodacmea
Species:
R. elatior
Binomial name
Rhodacmea elatior
(Anthony, 1855)
Synonyms

Rhodacme elatior

Rhodacmea elatior, the domed ancylid, is a species of small freshwater snail or limpet, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

Distribution

This freshwater limpet is endemic to the United States. [2]

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References

  1. Bogan, A.E. (1996). "Rhodacmea elatior". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T19669A9002012. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T19669A9002012.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. Ó Foighil D., Li J., Lee T., Johnson P., Evans R. & Burch J. B. (2011). "Conservation Genetics of a Critically Endangered Limpet Genus and Rediscovery of an Extinct Species". PLoS ONE 6(5): e20496. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0020496.