Pygmy elimia
| Pygmy elimia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Elimia |
| Species: | †E. pygmaea |
| Binomial name | |
| †Elimia pygmaea (H. H. Smith, 1936) | |
The pygmy elimia, scientific name †Elimia pygmaea, was a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct.
References
- Bogan, A.E. 2000. Elimia pygmaea. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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