Latia
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For the village in Iran, see Latia, Iran.
Latia is a genus of very small, air-breathing freshwater snails or limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Chilinoidea.[5]
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Latia neritoides | |
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Family: | Latiidae |
Genus: | Latia |
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one or three extant species, one fossil species | |
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Pelex Gould, 1852 |
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Latia is the only genus in the family Latiidae.
Species in this genus are the only freshwater bioluminescent molluscs in the world.[6]