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Gyrotoma
Sign in to saveGyrotoma is a genus of extinct freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This genus was endemic to the USA.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyPleuroceridae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 223
- With media
- 75
- Family
- Pleuroceridae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, ALMNH, UMMZ, NCSM, INHS
- Recorded in
- United States
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- Parent taxon
- Pleuroceridae
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- taxon name
- Gyrotoma
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- Category:Gyrotoma
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Gyrotoma is a genus of extinct freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pleuroceridae. This genus was endemic to the USA.
All of the species within this genus are presumed extinct. They were native to the main channel of the Coosa River in Alabama, where the last suitable habitat was destroyed by the filling of the reservoir Logan Martin Lake in the mid-1960s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gyrotoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.