mudalia
English
Noun
mudalia (plural mudalia)
- Any of several species of freshwater snails, included in the genus Leptoxis.
- 1996, Richard L. Hoffman, “Occurrence of the Costate Riversnail, Oxytrema catenaria (Say), in Virginia (Gastropodad: Pleuroceridae)”, in Banisteria, number 7:
- In many places, it co-exists with a local form of Mudalia, in those cases showing a somewhat greater tendency to occur on the sandy stream bed than on rocks, which the mudalia seems to prefer.
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Derived terms
- Arkansas mudalia
- crested mudalia
- black mudalia
- knob mudalia
- seep mudalia
- smooth mudalia
See also
- rocksnail