Aplexa

Aplexa
Shells of Aplexa hypnorum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Physidae
Genus: Aplexa
Fleming, 1820[1]

Aplexa is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Physidae.

Shell description

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These small snails are quite distinctive, because they have shells that are sinistral, which means that if you hold the shell such that the spire is pointing up, then the aperture is on the left-hand side.

The shells of Aplexa species have a long and large aperture, a relatively high and pointed spire, and no operculum. The shells are thin and corneous and rather transparent.

Species

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Species in the genus Aplexa include:

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References

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  1. ^ Fleming J. (1830). Mollusca. pp. 598-635, in: Brewster D. The Edinburgh Encyclopædia. In eighteen volumes. Volume XIV [= 14] [MED-MUS]. pp. [1], 1-748, Pl. CCCLXXII-CCCC [= 372-400]. Edinburgh. (Blackwood).
  2. ^ "Aplexa - Encyclopedia of Life". Eol.org. Retrieved 2022-05-01.

Further reading

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