Clappia
Clappia is a genus of small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lithoglyphidae.[2]
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| Genus: | Clappia Walker, 1909[1] |
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Generic name Clappia is in honor of malacologist George Hubbard Clapp.[1]
Species
There are two[2] species within the genus Clappia:
- Clappia cahabensis Clench, 1965 - Cahaba pebblesnail[2]
- † Clappia umbilicata (Walker, 1904) - Umbilicate pebblesnail, type species as Clapppia clappi[1][2]
Comparison of apertural views of both species:
References
- Walker B. (1909). "New Amnicolidae from Alabama". The Nautilus 22(9): 85-90. page 89.
- Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.
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