Leptoxis carinata

Leptoxis carinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Leptoxis
Species: L. carinata
Binomial name
Leptoxis carinata
(Bruguière, 1792)
Synonyms[1]

Anculosa carinata
Leptoxis nickliniana
Melania nickliniana
Mudalia carinata
Nitrocris carinata
Spirodon carinata

Leptoxis carinata, common name the crested mudalia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

Contents

Shell description

Leptoxis carinata has a shell and an operculum.

Distribution

This species occurs in North America.

Ecology

Habitat

Leptoxis carinata is found in freshwater environment.

Life cycle

Leptoxis carinata is semelparous biennial.[2]

This species, unlike softer shelled physid snails, grows very slowly, and has the lowest intrinsic rate of increase (this means that populations grow very slowly), along with Elimia virginica, in this environment.[3]

References

  1. ^ Dillon R. (ed.). Leptoxis carinata, Freshwater Gastropods of North America, accessed 30 October 2008.
  2. ^ David W. Aldridge. 1982. Reproductive Tactics in Relation to Life-Cycle Bioenergetics in Three Naturla populations of the Freshwater Snail, Leptoxis Carinata. Ecology: Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 196-208.
  3. ^ Hamilton, S. 1980. Reproduction or shell armor – a trade off in freshwater gastropods. The Bulletin of the American Malacological Union, Inc. 46:71.

Further reading