| Latia | |
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| Latia neritoides bioluminescent slime | |
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| Family: | Latiidae |
| Genus: | Latia |
| Diversity[3][4] | |
| one or three extant species, one fossil species | |
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Pelex Gould, 1852 | |
Latia is a genus of very small, air-breathing freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Chilinoidea.[5]
Latia is the only genus in the family Latiidae.
Species in this genus are the only freshwater bioluminescent molluscs in the world.[6]
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- ^ BERNARD J. BOWDEN (1950). SOME OBSERVATIONS ON A LUMINESCENT FRESHWATER LIMPET FROM NEW ZEALAND Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. Biol Bull 99: 373-380.
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