Shortspire hornsnail

Shortspire hornsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Species: P. curta
Binomial name
Pleurocera curta
Haldeman, 1841

The shortspire hornsnail, scientific name Pleurocera curta, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (1996). Pleurocera curta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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