Elimia

Elimia
Temporal range: 61.7–0 Ma[1] Paleocene to Present
A shell of Elimia virginica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854[2]
Type species
Melania acutocarinata
Synonyms[3]
  • Ambloxus Hannibal, 1912
  • Goniobasis I. Lea, 1862
  • Io (Elimia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
  • Macrolimen I. Lea, 1863
  • Melania (Goniobasis) I. Lea, 1862
  • Melania (Melasma) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
  • Melasma H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Elimia is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. Various species are found in creeks throughout much of the eastern and central United States and the Great Lakes region of Canada. Fossils have been found across the whole of the North American continent, including from the Paleocene of Mexico and the Eocene of California.[1] They were formerly included in the genus Goniobasis, together with the western Juga species.

  1. ^ a b "Elimia Adams and Adams 1858". Fossilworks.
  2. ^ H. Adams & A. Adams (1854). "The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization". Gen. Rec. Moll. 1: 300.
  3. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Elimia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057388 on 2023-10-29