Pleurocera

Pleurocera is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Pleuroceridae.

Pleurocera
Apertural view of a shell of Pleurocera acuta
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Rafinesque, 1818
Synonyms
  • Ceriphasia Swainson, 1840
  • Cerithidea (Ceriphasia) Swainson, 1840
  • Oxytrema Rafinesque, 1819
  • Pleurocera (Strephobasis) I. Lea, 1861
  • Pleuroceras Cossmann, 1909
  • Pleurocerus
  • Strephobasis I. Lea, 1861
  • Strepoma Haldeman, 1864
  • Telescopella Gray, 1847
  • Trypanostoma I. Lea, 1862

Pleurocera is the type genus of that family.

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