Synopsis Fresh-Water Mollusca 



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base, and with several basal denticles; laterals and marginals multicuspid. 

 Verge short, bifid, with a globular base. 



Type: PaUidina limosa Say, fig. 92. Animal, fig. 93. Operculum, fig. 94. 

 Radula, fig. 95. 



Fig- 95 



Subgenus CINCINNATIA Pilsbry, 1891. 



Radula more minute and the denticulations 

 of the cusps finer and sharper. 

 Type: Paludina cincinnatiensis Anth., fig. 96. 



Radula, fig. 97. 



Genus PALUDESTRIXA d'Orbigny, 1840. 



Shell similar to Amnicola, but more slender and elongated. 

 Central tooth with but one basal denticle on each side, and with- 

 out the tongue shaped process of Amnicola. Verge bifid. 



Fig. 98 



Fig. 99 

 Type: Cyclostouia aciititin Drap. 

 Example: P. nickliniana (Lea), fig. 98. Radula, fig. 99. 



Genus TRYONIA Stimpson, 1865. 



Shell perforate, elongated, turreted, subulate ; apex acute ; 

 surface longitudinally ribbed or plicated; whorls numerous, 

 shouldered ; aperture small, oblique, rhombo-ovate, lip sharp, 

 thin and efifuse at the base ; peritreme continuous. 



Type: T. clothrata Stimp., fig. 100. 



Genus PYRGULOPSIS Call and Pilsbry, 1886. 



Shell ovate-conical or turreted, imperforate, whorls having a single, 

 strong carina at the periphery, which may or may not be concealed on the 

 spire; apex acute; whorls 4^2 to 6; aperture ovate, peristome continuous; 



Fig. 100 



