Gillia altilis

Gillia altilis
Shell of Gillia altilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Subfamily: Lithoglyphinae
Genus: Gillia
Stimpson, 1865[2]
Species:
G. altilis
Binomial name
Gillia altilis
(I. Lea, 1841)

Gillia altilis, common name the Buffalo pebblesnail, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk with an operculum in the family Lithoglyphidae.[3]

Gillia altilis is the only species in the genus Gillia.[3]

  1. ^ Seddon, M.B. (2017). "Gillia altilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T69618792A69632968. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T69618792A69632968.en. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  2. ^ Stimpson W. (1865). "Diagnoses of newly discovered genera of gasteropods, belonging to the sub-fam. Hydrobiinae, of the family Rissoidae". American Journal of Conchology 1: 52-54. page 53.
  3. ^ a b Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.