Lioplax
| Lioplax | |
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| 1870 drawing of a shell of Lioplax cyclostomaformis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Viviparoidea |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Subfamily: | Lioplacinae |
| Genus: | Lioplax Troschel, 1857[1] |
Lioplax is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae. [2]
Species
Species within the genus Lioplax include:
- Lioplax cyclostomaformis, otherwise known as the "cylindrical lioplax"
References
- ↑ Troschel (1857). Gebiss Schneck. 1: 100.
- ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Lioplax Troschel, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=827301 on 2014-12-09
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