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Clappia (gastropod)

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For the monotypic plant genus, see Clappia (plant).

Clappia
Drawing of apertural view of the shell and its operculum of Clappia umbilicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda

clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Lithoglyphidae
Genus:
Clappia

Walker, 1909[1]
Diversity[2]
2 species

Clappia is a genus of small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lithoglyphidae.[2]

Generic name Clappia is in honor of malacologist George Hubbard Clapp.[1]

Species

There are two[2] species within the genus Clappia:

Comparison of apertural views of both species:

Clappia cahabensis
Clappia umbilicata

References

  1. ^ a b c Walker B. (1909). "New Amnicolidae from Alabama". The Nautilus 22(9): 85-90. page 89.
  2. ^ a b c d e Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.


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