Rugged hornsnail

Rugged hornsnail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Species: P. alveare
Binomial name
Pleurocera alveare
Conrad, 1834

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

References

  1. Bogan A. E. (1996). Pleurocera alveare. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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