''Elimia'' is a

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s with an operculum, aquatic gastropod

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Pleuroceridae Pleuroceridae, common name pleurocerids, is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.These snails have an operculum and typically a robust high-spired shell. Reprodu ...

. Various species are found in creeks throughout much of the eastern and central

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. They were formerly included in the genus ''Goniobasis'', together with the western ''

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Species

Species within the genus ''Elimia'' include: * ''

Elimia acuta ''Elimia acuta'' is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as ...

'' * mud elimia (''Elimia alabamensis'') * black-crest elimia (''Elimia albanyensis'') * ''

Elimia ampla ''Elimia ampla'', common name ample elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. Distribution This species is endemic to the Alabama, United States. See als ...

'' (Anthony, 1854) *

Lily Shoals elimia The Lily Shoals elimia, scientific name ''Elimia annettae'', is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States The United States of ...

(''Elimia annettae'') * ''

Elimia aterina ''Elimia aterina'' is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known a ...

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walnut elimia The Walnut elimia (''Elimia bellula'') is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or US ...

(''Elimia bellula'') * flaxen elimia (''Elimia boykiniana'') * short-spired elimia (''Elimia brevis'') *

Cahaba elimia The Cahawba elimia (''Elimia cahawbensis'') is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States. It is named after Cahaba, Alabama and the Ca ...

(''Elimia cahawbensis'') *

spindle elimia The spindle elimia (''Elimia capillaris'') is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or ...

(''Elimia capillaris'') * Sharp-crest Elimia (Elimia carinifera) *

closed elimia The closed elimia, scientific name †''Elimia clausa'', was a species of gastropod in the family Pleuroceridae. It was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of ki ...

(''Elimia clausa'') *

lacy elimia The lacy elimia also known as the lacey elimia, scientific name ''Elimia crenatella'', is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the Unite ...

(''Elimia crenatella'') * Balcones elimia (''Elimia comalensis'') *

banded elimia The banded elimia (''Elimia fascinans'') is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae Pleuroceridae, common name pleurocerids, is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater sna ...

(''Elimia fascinans'') *

fusiform elimia The fusiform elimia (''Elimia fusiformis'') was a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct Extinction is the ...

(''Elimia fusiformis'') *

Coldwater elimia The coldwater elimia (''Elimia modesta'') is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or US ...

(''Elimia gerhardti'') * ''

Elimia gibbera ''Elimia gibbera'' was a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct, the attributed cause is land-use change. Refere ...

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high-spired elimia The high-spired elimia (''Elimia hartmaniana'') was a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct Extinction i ...

(''Elimia hartmaniana'') *

silt elimia The silt elimia (''Elimia haysiana'') is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or US ...

(''Elimia haysiana'') * gladiator elimia (''Elimia hydei'') * constricted elimia (''Elimia impressa'') * knotty elimia (''Elimia interrupta'') * slowwater elimia (''Elimia interveniens'') *

hearty elimia The hearty elimia, ''Elimia jonesi'', is an extinct species of freshwater snails in the family Pleuroceridae. This species was endemic to Alabama, the United States, with records from the Coosa River. It is now considered extinct, having not been ...

(''Elimia jonesi'') * '' Elimia lachryma'' * ribbed elimia (''Elimia laeta'') * liver elimia (''

Elimia livescens ''Elimia livescens'', common name the liver elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. Shell description The height of the shell of this species can be as large as 2 ...

'') * '' Elimia macglameriana'' * round-rib elimia (''Elimia nassula'') * caper elimia (''Elimia olivula'') * rough-lined elimia (''Elimia pilsbryi'') * '' Elimia porrecta'' * pyramid elimia (''Elimia potosiensis'') * Sprite Elimia (Elimia proxima) * pupa elimia (''Elimia pupaeformis'') * '' Elimia pybasi'' * pygmy elimia (''Elimia pygmaea'') * compact elimia ('' Elimia showalteri'') * '' Elimia strigosa'' * † ''

Elimia tenera ''Elimia tenera'' in Wyoming.html" ;"title="chalcedony from Wyoming">chalcedony from Wyoming ''Elimia tenera'', formerly known as ''Goniobasis tenera'', is an extinct species of freshwater snail with an operculum (gastropod), operculum, in t ...

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Elimia teres ''Elimia teres'' is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as t ...

'' * '' Elimia troostiana'' * cobble elimia (''Elimia vanuxemiana'') * puzzle elimia (''Elimia varians'') *

squat elimia The squat elimia (''Elimia variata'') is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae Pleuroceridae, common name pleurocerids, is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails ...

(''Elimia variata'') * piedmont elimia (''

Elimia virginica ''Elimia virginica'', common names the Piedmont elimia or Virginia river snail, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pleuroceridae. Distribution Indigenous distribution ''Elimia vir ...

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