Pleurocera catenaria

Pleurocera catenaria is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.

Pleurocera catenaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Pleuroceridae
Genus:
Pleurocera
Species:
P. albanyensis
Binomial name
Pleurocera albanyensis
(Say, 1822)
Synonyms[1]

Goniobasis catenaria
Elimia catenaria (Say, 1822)
Pleurocera albanyensis (I. Lea, 1864)
Elimia albanyensis (I. Lea, 1864)
Pleurocera boykiniana (I. Lea, 1840)
Pleurocera caelatura
Pleurocera christyi
Pleurocera darwini
Pleurocera interrupta (Haldeman, 1840)
Pleurocera lecontiana
Pleurocera mutabilis
Pleurocera postelli (I. Lea, 1862)
Pleurocera suturalis
Pleurocera viennaensis

This species is endemic to southern Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia.[1]

Subspecies

Subspecies of Pleurocera catenaria include:

  • Pleurocera catenaria catenaria (Say, 1822)[1]
  • Pleurocera catenaria dislocata (Ravenel, 1834)[2]

Synonyms

Synonyms of Pleurocera catenaria catenaria include:

  • Elimia albanyensis,[1] common name black-crest elimia, it was listed as vulnerable species in 1996[3] and as least concern in 2011.[4]
  • Pleurocera boykiniana,[1] common name flaxen elimia, it was listed as vulnerable species in 1996.[5]
  • Pleurocera caelatura[1]
  • Pleurocera christyi[1]
  • Pleurocera darwini[1]
  • Pleurocera interrupta,[1] - common name knotty elimia, it was listed as vulnerable species in 1996.[6]
  • Pleurocera lecontiana[1]
  • Pleurocera mutabilis[1]
  • Pleurocera postelli,[1] common name broken hornsnail.
  • Pleurocera suturalis[1]
  • Pleurocera viennaensis[1]

References
  1. "Pleurocera catenaria catenaria (Say 1822)". FWGNA: Freshwater Gastropods of North America, accessed 21 February 2013.
  2. "Pleurocera catenaria dislocata (Ravenel 1834)". FWGNA: Freshwater Gastropods of North America, accessed 21 February 2013.
  3. Bogan A. E. (1996). Elimia albanyensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  4. Cordeiro J. & Perez K. (2011). Elimia albanyensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  5. Bogan A. E. (1996). Elimia boykiniana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  6. Bogan A. E. (1996). Elimia interrupta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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