Pleurocera ampla
Lectotype of Elimia ampla (MCZ 161735)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
Species:
E. ampla
Binomial name
Elimia ampla
(Anthony, 1854)[2]
Synonyms
  • Melania ampla Anthony, 1854 (original combination)
  • Elimia ampla (Anthony, 1854)

Elimia ampla, common name ample elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Alabama, United States.[1]

See also

  • Leptoxis ampla (Anthony, 1855) is another species with similar scientific name.

References

  1. 1 2 Cordeiro, J.; Perez, K. (2012). "Elimia ampla". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T7582A3138432. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T7582A3138432.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Anthony J. G. (1854). "Descriptions of new fluviatile shells of the genus Melania Lam., from western states of North America". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 6: 80-130. page 93-94. Plate II, figure 12.
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