Ribbed slitshell

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 family. 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.^[2]

Ribbed slitshell
Dried shells from the Coosa River, Alabama
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Pleuroceridae
Genus:	†Gyrotoma
Species:	†G. pumila
Binomial name
†Gyrotoma pumila (I. Lea, 1860)