The cobble elimia, scientific name Elimia vanuxemiana, is a species of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod molluscs with an operculum in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States.[2]
| Cobble elimia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Pleuroceridae |
| Genus: | Elimia |
| Species: | †E. vanuxemiana |
| Binomial name | |
| †Elimia vanuxemiana I. Lea, 1843 | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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As of 2000, the species was considered extinct by the IUCN.[1] It was rediscovered in the wild in 2005,[4] but is still considered critically imperiled.[2]
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