Ribbed slitshell

Ribbed slitshell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Gyrotoma
Species: G. pumila
Binomial name
Gyrotoma pumila
(I. Lea, 1860)

The ribbed slitshell, scientific name Gyrotoma pumila, was a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae family. This species was endemic to the United States.

References

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