Sharp Hornsnail

Pleurocera acuta

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: —
Family: Pleuroceridae

Pleurocera acuta, common name the sharp hornsnail, is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae, the hornsnails. Shell description The shell can have up to 14 whorls. The shell of this species can be as long as 37 mm.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 193Canada · 86

Sources and credits

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Sharp Hornsnail

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