Domed ancylid

Domed ancylid
Two views of two shells of the domed ancylid from the Green River and Cahaba River
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Rhodacmeinae
Genus: Rhodacmea
Species: R. elatior
Binomial name
Rhodacmea elatior
(Anthony, 1855)
Synonyms

Rhodacme elatior

The domed ancylid, scientific name Rhodacmea elatior,[2] is a species of small freshwater snail or limpet, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

Distribution

This freshwater limpet is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (1996). Rhodacme elatior. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. Ó Foighil D., Li J., Lee T., Johnson P., Evans R. & Burch J. B. (2011). "Conservation Genetics of a Critically Endangered Limpet Genus and Rediscovery of an Extinct Species". PLoS ONE 6(5): e20496. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020496.
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