Clappia

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. 1 2 3 Walker B. (1909). "New Amnicolidae from Alabama". The Nautilus 22(9): 85-90. page 89.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.


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