Biology:Elimia showalteri
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Elimia showalteri | |
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| Lectotype of Elimia showalteri (ANSP 26881) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Elimia |
| Species: | E. showalteri
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| Binomial name | |
| Elimia showalteri (I. Lea, 1860)
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Elimia showalteri, common name the compact elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pleuroceridae.
Shell description
Elimia showalteri has a large, robust, smooth shell boldly colored brown and/or green shell.[1]
Anatomy
Elimia showalteri is agill-breathing snail. It is genetically very similar to the lacy elimia Elimia crenatella.[2]
Distribution
This snail lives in the United States.
Ecology
Habitat
Compact elimia are found grazing individually throughout shoal habitats.[1]
Life cycle
Embryos develop into Trochophore larvae before eventually becoming Veliger larvae. [3]
Feeding habits
These snails are known to graze individually in Shoal habitats. [1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2005. Recovery Plan for 6 Mobile River Basin Aquatic Snails. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi. 46 pp, pp. 7-8.
- ↑ Lydeard C., W.E. Holznagel, J. Garner, P. Hartfield, & J. M. Pierson. 1997. A molecular phylogeny of Mobile River drainage basin pleurocerid snails (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7(1):117-128.
- ↑ "Elimia showalteri, Compact Elimia". http://sealifebase01.fisheries.ubc.ca/summary/Elimia-showalteri.html.
Wikidata ☰ Q3172845 entry
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