Slender campeloma
| Slender campeloma | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Viviparoidea |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Campeloma |
| Species: | C. decampi |
| Binomial name | |
| Campeloma decampi (W. G. Binney, 1865) | |
The slender campeloma, scientific name Campeloma decampi, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.
This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States, where it is known only from Limestone County.[2]
This snail is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.[2]
References
- ↑ Bogan, A.E. (2000). Campeloma decampi. 2011 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 August 2011.
- 1 2 Haggerty, T. M. and J. T. Garner. (2008). Distribution of the Armored Snail (Marstonia pachyta) and Slender Campeloma (Campeloma decampi) in Limestone, Piney, and Round Island Creeks, Alabama. Southeastern Naturalist 7(4) 729-36.
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