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Corpulent hornsnail

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The corpulent hornsnail, scientific name Pleurocera corpulenta, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States.

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Corpulent hornsnail
Critically Imperiled
Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[2]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Species:
P. corpulenta
Binomial name
Pleurocera corpulenta
(Anthony, 1854)
Synonyms[3]
  • Melania corpulenta Anthony, 1854
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