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Pleurocera canaliculata

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Pleurocera canaliculata
Pleurocera canaliculata shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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

References

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  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". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.
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