mudalia

English

Noun

mudalia (plural mudalia)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• Arkansas mudalia
• crested mudalia
• black mudalia
• knob mudalia
• seep mudalia
• smooth mudalia

See also

• rocksnail