Ribbed slitshell

The ribbed slitshell, scientific name Gyrotoma pumila, was a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pleuroceridae family. This species was endemic to the United States.

Ribbed slitshell
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G. pumila
Binomial name
Gyrotoma pumila
(I. Lea, 1860)

References

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


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