Clappia is a genus of small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lithoglyphidae. [2] [3]

Clappia
Drawing of apertural view of the shell and its operculum of Clappia umbilicata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Genus: Clappia
Walker, 1909[1]

Generic name Clappia is in honor of malacologist George Hubbard Clapp.[1]

Species

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There are two[3] species within the genus Clappia:

Synonyms
  • Clappia cabahensis Clench, 1965: synonym of Clappia cahabensis Clench, 1965
  • Clappia clappi B. Walker, 1909: synonym of Clappia umbilicata (B. Walker, 1904) (a junior synonym)

Comparison of apertural views of both species:

 
Clappia cahabensis
 
Clappia umbilicata

References

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  1. ^ a b c Walker B. (1909). "New Amnicolidae from Alabama". The Nautilus 22(9): 85-90. page 89.
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Clappia B. Walker, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=887026 on 2022-04-22
  3. ^ a b c d Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.