Slender campeloma

The slender campeloma, scientific name Campeloma decampi, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

Slender campeloma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Viviparoidea
Family:
Viviparidae
Genus:
Campeloma
Species:
C. decampi
Binomial name
Campeloma decampi
(W. G. Binney, 1865)
Synonyms

Melantho decampi Binney, 1865 (original combination)

This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States, where it is known only from Limestone County.[2]

This snail is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.[2]

References
  1. Bogan, A.E. (2000). Campeloma decampi. 2011 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 29 August 2011.
  2. Haggerty, T. M. and J. T. Garner. (2008). Distribution of the Armored Snail (Marstonia pachyta) and Slender Campeloma (Campeloma decampi) in Limestone, Piney, and Round Island Creeks, Alabama. Southeastern Naturalist 7(4) 729-36.


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