Corpulent hornsnail

The corpulent hornsnail, scientific name Pleurocera corpulenta, 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.

Corpulent hornsnail

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Pleuroceridae
Genus:
Pleurocera
Species:
P. corpulenta
Binomial name
Pleurocera corpulenta
Anthony, 1854

References
  1. Cordeiro, J. & Perez, K. (2012). Pleurocera corpulenta. 2012 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 3 March 2017.


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