Elimia
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.
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| A shell of Elimia virginica | |
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| Genus: | Elimia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854[1] |
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Species
Species within the genus Elimia include:
- Elimia acuta
- mud elimia (Elimia alabamensis)
- black-crest elimia (Elimia albanyensis)
- Elimia ampla (Anthony, 1854)
- Lily Shoals elimia (Elimia annettae)
- Elimia aterina
- walnut elimia (Elimia bellula)
- flaxen elimia (Elimia boykiniana)
- short-spired elimia (Elimia brevis)
- Cahaba elimia (Elimia cahawbensis)
- spindle elimia (Elimia capillaris)
- closed elimia (Elimia clausa)
- lacy elimia (Elimia crenatella)
- Balcones elimia (Elimia comalensis)
- banded elimia (Elimia fascinans)
- fusiform elimia (Elimia fusiformis)
- Coldwater elimia (Elimia gerhardti)
- Elimia gibbera
- high-spired elimia (Elimia hartmaniana)
- silt elimia (Elimia haysiana)
- gladiator elimia (Elimia hydei)
- constricted elimia (Elimia impressa)
- knotty elimia (Elimia interrupta)
- slowwater elimia (Elimia interveniens)
- hearty elimia (Elimia jonesi)
- Elimia lachryma
- ribbed elimia (Elimia laeta)
- liver elimia (Elimia livescens)
- Elimia macglameriana
- round-rib elimia (Elimia nassula)
- caper elimia (Elimia olivula)
- rough-lined elimia (Elimia pilsbryi)
- Elimia porrecta
- pyramid elimia (Elimia potosiensis)
- pupa elimia (Elimia pupaeformis)
- Elimia pybasi
- pygmy elimia (Elimia pygmaea)
- compact elimia (Elimia showalteri)
- Elimia strigosa
- † Elimia tenera
- Elimia teres
- Elimia troostiana
- cobble elimia (Elimia vanuxemiana)
- puzzle elimia (Elimia varians)
- squat elimia (Elimia variata)
- piedmont elimia (Elimia virginica)
References
- H. Adams. 1854. Gen. Rec. Moll., 1, 300.
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