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Clappia (gastropod)

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

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

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

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

^ ^a ^b ^c Walker B. (1909). "New Amnicolidae from Alabama". The Nautilus 22(9): 85-90. page 89.
^ ^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
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141.

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