The Coosa pebblesnail, scientific name Somatogyrus coosaensis, is a species of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Lithoglyphidae. This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States. Its natural habitat is the Coosa River. Although the IUCN officially categorises the species as Critically Endangered, it also considers it as Possibly extinct, as it has not been recorded in several dozen years. This latter classification is also supported by The Nature Conservancy.[2]

Coosa pebblesnail

Possibly Extinct  (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Genus: Somatogyrus
Species:
S. coosaensis
Binomial name
Somatogyrus coosaensis
Walker, 1904

References edit

  1. ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Somatogyrus coosaensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T20354A9190598. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T20354A9190598.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Somatogyrus coosaensis". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 12 October 2023.