Athearnia
Genus of gastropods
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Athearnia is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae.[1]
| Athearnia | |
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| Athearnia anthonyi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Athearnia J. P. E. Morrison, 1971 |
| Type species | |
| Anculosa anthonyi Redfield, 1854 | |
Species
Species within the genus Athearnia include:
- Athearnia anthonyi (Redfield, 1854)
- Athearnia crassa (Haldeman, 1842), the boulder snail
