Knobby rocksnail

Knobby rocksnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Lithasia
Species: L. curta
Binomial name
Lithasia curta
(I. Lea, 1868)

The knobby rocksnail, scientific name Lithasia curta, is a species of medium-sized freshwater snail, an aquatic gilled gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (2000). Lithasia curta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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