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