Domed ancylid

The domed ancylid (Rhodacmea elatior)[2] is a species of small freshwater snail or limpet, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

Domed ancylid
Two views of two shells of the domed ancylid from the Green River and Cahaba River
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Planorboidea
Family:
Planorbidae
Subfamily:
Rhodacmeinae
Genus:
Rhodacmea
Species:
R. elatior
Binomial name
Rhodacmea elatior
(Anthony, 1855)
Synonyms

Rhodacme elatior

Distribution

This freshwater limpet is endemic to the United States.

References
  1. Bogan A. E. (1996). Rhodacme elatior. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 7 August 2007.
  2. Ó Foighil D., Li J., Lee T., Johnson P., Evans R. & Burch J. B. (2011). "Conservation Genetics of a Critically Endangered Limpet Genus and Rediscovery of an Extinct Species". PLoS ONE 6(5): e20496. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020496.


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