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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