Ribbed slitshell
Species of gastropod
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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. This species was endemic to the United States. The IUCN conducted an assessment in 2000 that determined the ribbed slitshell was extinct. This status was published in the 2000 Red List.[1]
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| Ribbed slitshell | |
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| Dried shells from the Coosa River, Alabama | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | †Gyrotoma |
| Species: | †G. pumila |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gyrotoma pumila (I. Lea, 1860) | |
