Cobble elimia

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Cobble elimia
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Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe) [2]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
Species:
E. vanuxemiana
Binomial name
Elimia vanuxemiana
I. Lea, 1843
Synonyms [3]
  • Goniobasis negataI. Lea, 1862
  • Melania arctataI. Lea, 1845
  • Melania pergrataI. Lea, 1861
  • Melania rubicundaI. Lea, 1861
  • Melania vanuxemianaI. Lea, 1843
  • Melania vanuxemiana var. fragosaReeve, 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. [2]

As of 2000, the species was considered extinct by the IUCN. [1] It was rediscovered in the wild in 2005, [4] but is still considered critically imperiled. [2]

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Elimia troostiana, the Mossy Elimia, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to the Mossy Creek district of Jefferson County, Tennessee in the United States, for which it is named.

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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 (2018). "Elimia vanuxemiana". 7.1. Arlington, Virginia: NatureServe . 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