Elimia showalteri

Elimia showalteri
Conservation status
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
Species: E. showalteri
Binomial name
Elimia showalteri
(I. Lea, 1860)

Elimia showalteri, common name the compact elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

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Shell description

Elimia showalteri has a large, robust, smooth shell boldly colored brown and/or green shell.[2]

Anatomy

Elimia showalteri is agill-breathing snail. It is genetically very similar to the lacy elimia Elimia crenatella.[3]

Distribution

This snail lives in the United States.

Ecology

Habitat

Compact elimia are found grazing individually throughout shoal habitats.[2]

Life cycle

Feeding habits

Parasites

Other interspecific relationships

References

  1. ^ IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 January 2009.
  2. ^ a b U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2005. Recovery Plan for 6 Mobile River Basin Aquatic Snails. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi. 46 pp, page 7-8.
  3. ^ Lydeard C., W.E. Holznagel, J. Garner, P. Hartfield, & J. M. Pierson. 1997. A molecular phylogeny of Mobile River drainage basin pleurocerid snails (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7(1):117-128.