Cobble elimia

Cobble elimia
Critically Imperiled
Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
Species:
†E. vanuxemiana
Binomial name
†Elimia vanuxemiana
I. Lea, 1843
Synonyms
  • Goniobasis negata I. Lea, 1862
  • Melania arctata I. Lea, 1845
  • Melania pergrata I. Lea, 1861
  • Melania rubicunda I. Lea, 1861
  • Melania vanuxemiana I. Lea, 1843
  • Melania vanuxemiana var. fragosa Reeve, 1861

The cobble elimia, scientific name Elimia vanuxemiana, is a species of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod molluscs with an operculum in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States.

As of 2000, the species was considered extinct by the IUCN. It was rediscovered in the wild in 2005, but is still considered critically imperiled.

References

  1. 1 2 Bogan, A.E.; et al. (Mollusc Specialist Group) (2000). "Elimia vanuxemiana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000 e.T7587A12833492. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T7587A12833492.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 NatureServe. "Elimia vanuxemiana". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
  3. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Elimia vanuxemiana (I. Lea, 1843). Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1116986 on 2023-10-13
  4. ↑ Mobile River Basin Coalition Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine