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.
| Elimia Temporal range: Paleocene to Present | |
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| A shell of Elimia virginica | |
Scientific 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] | |
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Species
Species within the genus Elimia include:
- Elimia acuta (I. Lea, 1831) (acute elimia)
- Elimia acutocarinata (I. Lea, 1841) type
- Elimia alabamensis (I. Lea, 1861) (mud elimia)
- Elimia albanyensis (I. Lea, 1864) (black-crest elimia)
- Elimia ampla (J. G. Anthony, 1854) (ample elimia)
- Elimia annettae (Goodrich, 1941) (Lily Shoals elimia)
- Elimia aterina (I. Lea, 1863) (coal elimia)
- Elimia bellula (I. Lea, 1861) (walnut elimia)
- Elimia boykiniana (I. Lea, 1840) (flaxen elimia)
- †Elimia brevis (Reeve, 1860) (short-spired elimia)
- Elimia cahawbensis (I. Lea, 1841) (Cahaba elimia)
- Elimia capillaris (I. Lea, 1861) (spindle elimia)
- Elimia carinifera (Lamarck, 1822) (sharp-crest elimia)
- †Elimia clausa (I. Lea, 1861) (closed elimia)
- Elimia comalensis (Pilsbry, 1890) (Balcones elimia)
- Elimia crenatella (I. Lea, 1860) (lacy elimia)
- †Elimia dickersoni Clark, 1938[1]
- Elimia fascinans (I. Lea, 1861) (banded elimia)
- †Elimia fusiformis (I. Lea, 1861) (fusiform elimia)
- †Elimia gibbera Goodrich, 1922) (shouldered elimia)
- †Elimia hartmaniana (I. Lea, 1861) (high-spired elimia)
- Elimia haysiana (I. Lea, 1843) (silt elimia)
- Elimia hydeii (Conrad, 1834) (gladiator elimia)
- †Elimia impressa (I. Lea, 1841) (constricted elimia)
- Elimia interrupta (Haldeman, 1840) (knotty elimia)
- Elimia interveniens (I. Lea, 1862) (slowwater elimia)
- †Elimia jonesi (Goodrich, 1936) (hearty elimia)
- Elimia lachryma (Reeve, 1861) (teardrop elimia)
- †Elimia laeta (Jay, 1839) (ribbed elimia)
- Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830) (liver elimia)
- †Elimia macglameriana (Goodrich, 1936) (Macglamery's Coosa River snail)
- Elimia modesta (Lea, 1862) (coldwater elimia)
- Elimia nassula (Conrad, 1834) (round-rib elimia)
- Elimia olivula (I. Lea, 1868) (caper elimia)
- †Elimia pilsbryi (Goodrich, 1927) (rough-lined elimia)
- Elimia porrecta (I. Lea, 1863) (nymph elimia)
- Elimia potosiensis (I. Lea, 1841) (pyramid elimia)
- Elimia proxima (Say, 1825) (sprite elimia)
- †Elimia pupaeformis (I. Lea, 1864) (pupa elimia)
- Elimia pybasii (I. Lea, 1862) (spring elimia)
- †Elimia pygmaea (H.H. Smith, 1936) (pygmy elimia)
- †Elimia schencki Clark, 1938[1]
- Elimia showalteri (I. Lea, 1860) (compact elimia)
- Elimia strigosa (I. Lea, 1841) (brook elimia)
- †Elimia tenera (Hall, 1845)
- Elimia teres (I. Lea, 1841) (elegant elimia)
- †Elimia trigemmata Conrad, 1860[1]
- Elimia troostiana (I. Lea, 1838) (Mossy elimia)
- Elimia vanuxemiana (I. Lea, 1843) (cobble elimia)
- Elimia varians (I. Lea, 1861) (puzzle elimia)
- Elimia variata (I. Lea, 1861) (squat elimia)
- Elimia virginica (Gmelin, 1791) (Piedmont elimia)
- †Elimia veatchii Gabb, 1864[1]
References
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