Juga plicifera

Juga plicifera
Shells at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Semisulcospiridae
Genus: Juga
Species:
J. plicifera
Binomial name
Juga plicifera
(I. Lea, 1838)
Synonyms

(Goniobasis plicifera (I. Lea, 1838)

  • Oxytrema silicula (A. Gould, 1847)

Juga plicifera, common name pleated juga, and graceful keeled horn snail is a species of small freshwater snail with an ovate and corneous operculum, ranging in size from 16mm to 35mm long. The snail is dextrally coiled with about 15 whorls and 10 to 12 axial plicae on each whorl. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae.