Excised slitshell
Excised slitshell | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Pleuroceridae |
Genus: | Gyrotoma |
Species: | †G. excisa |
Binomial name | |
†Gyrotoma excisa (I. Lea, 1843) | |
The excised slitshell, scientific name †Gyrotoma excisa, was a species of freshwater snail, 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). Gyrotoma excisa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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