Pleuroceridae
Pleuroceridae Io fluvialis Athearnia anthonyi Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha Superfamily: Cerithioidea Family: Pleuroceridae Fischer, 1885 Diversity [1] [2] About 150 extant species Pleuroceridae , common name pleurocerids , is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.These snails have an operculum and typically a robust high-spired shell. Reproduction is iteroparous, and juvenile snails emerge from eggs laid on a firm surface by a gonochoristic female. There is no veliger stage. Contents 1 Distribution 2 Taxonomy 2.1 2005 taxonomy 2.2 2009 taxonomy 3 Genera 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links Distribution As currently defined, this family is confined entirely to eastern Nort...