Short-spired elimia

Short-spired elimia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
Species: E. brevis
Binomial name
Elimia brevis
(Reeve, 1860)

The short-spired elimia, scientific nameElimia brevis, was a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species was endemic to the United States; it is now extinct.

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