Pleurocera

Pleurocera
Apertural view of a shell of Pleurocera acuta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Pleurocera
Rafinesque, 1818[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Ceriphasia Swainson, 1840
  • Cerithidea (Ceriphasia) Swainson, 1840
  • Oxytrema Rafinesque, 1819
  • Pleurocera (Strephobasis) I. Lea, 1861
  • Pleuroceras Cossmann, 1909
  • Pleurocerus
  • Strephobasis I. Lea, 1861
  • Strepoma Haldeman, 1864
  • Telescopella Gray, 1847
  • Trypanostoma I. Lea, 1862

Pleurocera is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Pleuroceridae.[2]

Pleurocera is the type genus of that family.

  1. ^ Rafinesque (1818). Amer. mon. Mag. 3(5): 355.
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pleurocera Rafinesque, 1818. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=820483 on 2023-10-31