- Clappia
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- For the plant genus in the Asteraceae, see Clappia.
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 LittorinimorphaSuperfamily: Rissooidea Family: Lithoglyphidae Genus: Clappia
Walker, 1909[1]Diversity 2 species[2] 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:
- Clappia cahabensis Clench, 1965 - Cahaba pebblesnail[2]
- † Clappia umbilicata (Walker, 1904) - Umbilicate pebblesnail, type species as Clapppia clappi[1][2]
Comparison of apertural views of both species:
References
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