Elimia

Elimia
A shell of Elimia virginica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854[1]
Synonyms

Goniobasis

Elimia is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. Various species are found in creeks throughout much of the eastern and central United States and the Great Lakes region of Canada. They were formerly included in the genus Goniobasis, together with the western Juga species.

Species

Species within the genus Elimia include:

References

  1. H. Adams. 1854. Gen. Rec. Moll., 1, 300.

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