
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. Reproduction is iteroparous, and juvenile snails emerge from eggs laid on a firm surface by a gonochoristic femal...
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(from the article `gastropod`) ...CerithiaceaMinute to large, generally elaborately sculptured shells, common in mud flats and mangroves, many species sand dwellers, with 1 group ...
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