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Aplexa
Sign in to saveAplexa is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 55
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Physidae
- Collections
- NMMNHS, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CMN, CAS, MSB, UTEP
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, Uruguay
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- Commons category
- Aplexa
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Aplexa
- topic's main category
- Category:Aplexa
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Shell description
- Species
- Synonyms
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Aplexa is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.
==Shell description== These small snails are quite distinctive, because they have shells that are sinistral, which means that if you hold the shell such that the spire is pointing up, then the aperture is on the left-hand side.
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