mudalia

plural mudalias

1. Any of several species of freshwater snails, included in the genus Leptoxis.

   Common names for various kinds in this family include elimias, hornsnails, mudalias, and rocksnails.

   2002, J. Reese Voshell, A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrates of North America, page 216

   1 more example

   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.

   1996, Richard L. Hoffman, “Occurrence of the Costate Riversnail, Oxytrema catenaria (Say), in Virginia (Gastropodad: Pleuroceridae)”, in Banisteria, number 7