Aylacostoma stigmaticum

Aylacostoma stigmaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Aylacostoma
Species: A. stigmaticum
Binomial name
Aylacostoma stigmaticum
Hylton Scott, 1953[2]

Aylacostoma stigmaticum is a species of freshwater snail, aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Thiaridae. This species became extinct in the wild after the building of the Yacyretá Dam on the Paraná River, in between Argentina and Paraguay.[3]

References

  1. Mansur M. C. D. (2000). Aylacostoma stigmaticum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 August 2014.
  2. Hylton Scott M. I. (1953). "El género Hemisinus (Melaniidae) en la costa fluvial argentina (Mol. Prosobr.)". Physis 20(59): 438–443.
  3. Mansur M. C. D. (2000). Aylacostoma stigmaticum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 August 2014.

See also

List of non-marine molluscs of Argentina

External links

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