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Pleurocera
Sign in to savePleurocera is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Pleuroceridae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyPleuroceridae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,678
- With media
- 456
- Family
- Pleuroceridae
- Collections
- PRI, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- United States
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Pleurocera is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Pleuroceridae.
Pleurocera is the type genus of that family.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pleurocera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.