Round slitshell

Round slitshell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Gyrotoma
Species: G. walkeri
Binomial name
Gyrotoma walkeri
(H. H. Smith, 1924)

The round slitshell, scientific name Gyrotoma walkeri, is an extinct species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae. This species was endemic to the United States.

References

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