Varicose rocksnail

Varicose rocksnail
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Lithasia
Species: L. verrucosa
Binomial name
Lithasia verrucosa
Rafinesque, 1820

The varicose rocksnail also known as the verrucose file snail, scientific name Lithasia verrucosa, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

References

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