Juga plicifera
| Juga plicifera | |
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| 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 | |
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(Goniobasis plicifera (I. Lea, 1838)
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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.