Elimia livescens
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| Elimia livescens | |
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| shell of Elimia livescens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Elimia |
| Species: | E. livescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830) | |
Elimia livescens, common name the liver elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae.
Distribution
Elimia livescens is native to the United States. It occurs in the Saint Lawrence River drainage from Great Lake to Lake Champlain; in tributaries of the Ohio River east of the Scioto River in Ohio; and in the Wabash River, west to the Illinois River.[3]
The nonindigenous distribution of Elimia livescens includes the lower Hudson River drainage.[3] It migrated to the Hudson River via the Erie Canal.[3] The impact of this introduction is unknown.[3]