Lithasia
Genus of gastropods
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Lithasia is a genus of medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod molluscs in the family Pleuroceridae. This genus is endemic to rivers in the mid-southern United States.
| Lithasia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Lithasia Haldeman, 1840 |
Species
Species within the genus Lithasia include:
- Armigerous river snail (Lithasia armigera)
- Knobby rocksnail (Lithasia curta)
- Dutton's river snail (Lithasia duttoniana)
- Geniculate river snail (Lithasia geniculata)
- Jay's river snail (Lithasia jayana)
- Elk River file snail (Lithasia lima)
- Muddy rocksnail (Lithasia salebrosa)
- Varicose rocksnail (Lithasia verrucosa)
