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Pleurocera
Apertural view of a shell of Pleurocera acuta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Rafinesque, 1818[1]
Synonyms[2]

Oxytrema Rafinesque, 1819
Ceriphasia Swainson, 1840
Telescopella Gray, 1847
Melasma H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Strephobasis Lea, 1861
Trypanostoma Lea, 1862
Goniobasis Lea, 1862
Macrolimen Lea, 1863
Strepoma Haldeman, 1863

Pleurocera is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae.[3]

Pleurocera is the type genus of that family.

Distribution

All members of the genus Pleurocera are native to eastern North America.[2]

Description

All of the species in this genus have thick-walled high-spired shells, and some attain a length of over 4 cm. The shape of the shell is elongate-conic or cylindrical.[2] The sculpture of the shell is often carinate or costate.[2] The shell of larger species sometimes develops sculpturing and a small siphonal canal or siphonal notch at the base of the aperture.[2]

Opercula are paucispiral and corneous, but may be vestigial in some species, not completely closing the aperture.

The soft parts of the animal usually have a gray or brown coloration, commonly speckled with orange. The similar genus Juga has a seminal receptacle, but Pleurocera has no seminal receptacle.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Pleurocera include: (brackets needs to be checked, authorities according to the IUCN Red List may be incorrect)[verification needed]

Species brought into synonymy

Ecology

Most species inhabit larger rivers.[2]

Pleurocera snails are dioecious.[2]

References

  1. ^ Rafinesque (1818). Amer. mon. Mag. 3(5): 355.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Dillon R. T. (2011). "Robust Shell Phenotype is a Local Response to Stream Size in the Genus Pleurocera (Rafinesque, 1818)". Malacologia 53(2): 265-277. doi:10.4002/040.053.0205.
  3. ^ Neubauer, Thomas A. (2014). Pleurocera Rafinesque, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=820483 on 2014-11-25
  4. ^ Melville R. V. (1981). "Opinion 1195. Pleurocera Rafinesque, 1818 (Gastropoda): The type species is Pleurocerus acutus Rafinesque in Blainville, 1824". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 38: 259–265.
  5. ^ "Pleurocera catenaria catenaria (Say 1822)". FWGNA: Freshwater Gastropods of North America, accessed 21 February 2013.
  6. ^ "Pleurocera catenaria dislocata (Ravenel 1834)". FWGNA: Freshwater Gastropods of North America, accessed 21 February 2013.
  7. ^ "Pleurocera canaliculata (Say 1821)". FWGNA: Freshwater Gastropods of North America, accessed 21 February 2013.