Pleated Juga

Juga plicifera, common name pleated juga, and graceful keeled horn snail is a species of small freshwater snail with an ovate and corneous operculum, ranging in size from 16mm to 35mm long. The snail is dextrally coiled with about 15 whorls and 10 to 12 axial plicae on each whorl. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Pleated Juga being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Juga nigrina
• Semisulcospira libertina
• Elimia laqueata
• Elimia virginica
• Sulcospira hainanensis

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Family

Semisulcospiridae

Genus

Juga

Species

Juga plicifera

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