Lioplax

Lioplax
1870 drawing of a shell of Lioplax cyclostomatiformis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Viviparidae
Subfamily:	Lioplacinae
Genus:	Lioplax Troschel, 1857[1]

Lioplax is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Lioplax include:[2]

• Lioplax choctawhatchensis Vanatta, 1935
• Lioplax cyclostomatiformis (I. Lea, 1844)
• Lioplax pilsbryi B. Walker, 1905
• Lioplax subcarinata (Say, 1817)
• Lioplax sulculosa (Menke, 1828)

References

1. Troschel (1857). Gebiss Schneck. 1: 100.
2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Lioplax Troschel, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=827301 on 2024-03-02