Pyramid slitshell

Pyramid slitshell
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Gyrotoma
Species: G. pyramidata
Binomial name
Gyrotoma pyramidata
(Shuttleworth, 1845)

The pyramid slitshell, scientific name Gyrotoma pyramidata, was a species of freshwater snail, a gastropod in the Pleuroceridae family. It was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct.

References

  1. ^ Bogan A. E. (2000). Gyrotoma pyramidata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.