Jay's river snail

Jay's river snail
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
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 speciet is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. ^ Bogan A. E. (1996). Lithasia jayana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.