Elimia

Elimia
shell of Elimia virginica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Family:	Pleuroceridae
Genus:	Elimia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Synonyms
Goniobasis

Elimia is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. Various species are found in creeks throughout much of the eastern and central United States and the Great Lakes region of Canada.

Species

Species within the genus Elimia include:

Elimia acuta mud elimia (Elimia alabamensis) black-crest elimia (Elimia albanyensis) lily shoals elimia (Elimia annettae) Elimia aterina walnut elimia (Elimia bellula) flaxen elimia (Elimia boykiniana) short-spired elimia (Elimia brevis) cahaba elimia (Elimia cahawbensis) spindle elimia (Elimia capillaris) closed elimia (Elimia clausa) lacy elimia (Elimia crenatella) banded elimia (Elimia fascinans) fusiform elimia (Elimia fusiformis) coldwater elimia (Elimia gerhardti)

Elimia gibbera high-spired elimia (Elimia hartmaniana) silt elimia (Elimia haysiana) gladiator elimia (Elimia hydei) constricted elimia (Elimia impressa) knotty elimia (Elimia interrupta) slowwater elimia (Elimia interveniens) hearty elimia (Elimia jonesi) Elimia lachryma ribbed elimia (Elimia laeta) Elimia livescens - liver elimia Elimia macglameriana round-rib elimia (Elimia nassula) caper elimia (Elimia olivula) rough-lined elimia (Elimia pilsbryi)

Elimia porrecta pupa elimia (Elimia pupaeformis) Elimia pybasi pygmy elimia (Elimia pygmaea) Elimia showalteri (I. Lea, 1860) - compact elimia Elimia strigosa Elimia tenera Elimia teres Elimia troostiana cobble elimia (Elimia vanuxemiana) puzzle elimia (Elimia varians) squat elimia (Elimia variata) Elimia virginica - piedmont elimia

Synonyms

• Elimia ampla is a synonym for round rocksnail Leptoxis ampla.

Further reading

• http://www.cofc.edu/~dillonr/28Sept04.html