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Thickshell Pond Snail
Plate 1 of 6. Richard Ellsworth Call (1856-1917, U.S.A.), no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist
IUCN CR · Critically endangered

Thickshell Pond Snail

Ladislavella utahensis

Ladislavella utahensis, common name the thickshell pondsnail, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails. This species is endemic to Utah Lake in the United States. The last living snails were found in the early 1930s.

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Range & habitat

This species is endemic to Utah and it is known only from Utah Lake. The type locality is Lake Utah, Lehi, Utah. The species was already considered "rare" in Utah Lake in the 1880s. The most recent living examples were found in 1933.

Wikipedia: “Distribution”

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What it does

This species was associated with abundant individuals of the snails Valvata utahensis and Fluminicola fusca and with the bivalve Sphaerium dentatum.

Wikipedia: “Ecology”

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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