Latia
| Latia | |
|---|---|
| Latia neritoides bioluminescent slime | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Latiidae |
| Genus: | Latia Gray, 1850 |
| Diversity | |
| one or three extant species, one fossil species | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Pelex Gould, 1852 | |
Latia is a genus of very small, air-breathing freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Chilinoidea.
Latia is the only genus in the family Latiidae.
Species in this genus are the only freshwater bioluminescent molluscs in the world.