Laevapex
Sign in to saveLaevapex is a genus of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 76
- Family
- Planorbidae
- Collections
- CM, AUM, CMN, UF, JFBM, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
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Laevapex is a genus of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.
== Geographic distribution == The genus has a New World distribution. It is widespread throughout the eastern United States, occurring in lakes and slow-flowing rivers.
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