Pagoda slitshell

Pagoda slitshell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Gyrotoma
Species: G. pagoda
Binomial name
Gyrotoma pagoda
(I. Lea, 1845)

The pagoda slitshell, scientific nameGyrotoma pagoda, was a species of freshwater snail, a gastropod in the Pleuroceridae family. This species was endemic to the United States. It is now extinct.

References

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