Elimia showalteri, common name the compact elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pleuroceridae.
Elimia showalteri has a large, robust, smooth shell boldly colored brown and/or green shell.[1]
Elimia showalteri is agill-breathing snail. It is genetically very similar to the lacy elimia Elimia crenatella.[2]
This snail lives in the United States.
Compact elimia are found grazing individually throughout shoal habitats.[1]
Embryos develop into Trochophore larvae before eventually becoming Veliger larvae. [3]
These snails are known to graze individually in Shoal habitats. [1]
Elimia showalteri, common name the compact elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pleuroceridae.
