Striate slitshell

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

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Gyrotoma
Species: G. lewisii
Binomial name
Gyrotoma lewisii
(I. Lea, 1869)

The striate slitshell, scientific name Gyrotoma lewisii, 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

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