Elimia showalteri
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
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| image = Lectotype of Elimia showalteri (ANSP 26881).png
| image_caption = Lectotype of Elimia showalteri (ANSP 26881)
| status = G1
| status_system = TNC
| taxon = Elimia showalteri
| authority = (I. Lea, 1860)
| synonyms = {{species list
| Lithasia showalterii | I. Lea, 1860
| Melania purpurea | I. Lea, 1861 }}
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Elimia showalteri, common name the compact elimia, is a species of freshwater snail in the family Pleuroceridae.
Shell description
Elimia showalteri has a large, robust, smooth shell boldly colored brown and/or green shell.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2005. [http://ecos.fws.gov/docs/recovery_plan/051202.pdf Recovery Plan for 6 Mobile River Basin Aquatic Snails]. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi. 46 pp, pp. 7–8.
Anatomy
Elimia showalteri is agill-breathing snail. It is genetically very similar to the lacy elimia Elimia crenatella.{{cite journal |last1=Lydeard |first1=Charles |last2=Holznagel |first2=Wallace E. |last3=Garner |first3=Jeff |last4=Hartfield |first4=Paul |last5=Pierson |first5=J.Malcolm |title=A Molecular Phylogeny of Mobile River Drainage Basin Pleurocerid Snails (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea) |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |date=1997 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=117–128 |doi=10.1006/mpev.1996.0377}}
Distribution
This snail is endemic to the Upper Cahaba River in Alabama, the United States.
Ecology
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Embryos develop into trochophore larvae before eventually becoming veliger larvae.{{SeaLifeBase species |genus=Elimia |species=showalterii |id= |month=March |year=2024 }}
= Feeding habits =
These snails are known to graze individually in shoal habitats.
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Category:Freshwater animals of North America
Category:Endemic molluscs of the United States
Category:Endemic fauna of Alabama