Biology:Pleurocera canaliculata

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Pleurocera canaliculata
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.175133 - Pleurocera canaliculata (Say, 1821) - Pleuroceridae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Pleurocera canaliculata shells
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Species:
P. canaliculata
Binomial name
Pleurocera canaliculata
(Say, 1821)
Synonyms

Pleurocera nobile

Pleurocera canaliculata is a species of a freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae, the hornsnails.

Ecology

Parasites of Pleurocera canaliculata include trematodes Cotylaspis cokeri and Cotylogaster occidentalis.[1]

References

  1. Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World" (in en). Zootaxa 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098. http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3918.3.2. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10634412 entry