Cahaba elimia | |
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Lectotype of Elimia cahawbensis (USNM 119055) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Pleuroceridae |
Genus: | Elimia |
Species: | E. cahawbensis
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Binomial name | |
Elimia cahawbensis (I. Lea, 1841)
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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 Cahaba River.