Aylacostoma stigmaticum
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Aylacostoma stigmaticum is a species of freshwater snail, aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Hemisinidae. This species disappeared after the building of the Yacyretá Dam on the Paraná River, in between Argentina and Paraguay.[1] Although listed as extinct in the wild by the IUCN, no captive population survives meaning that it now is entirely extinct.[3]
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Aylacostoma stigmaticum | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Hemisinidae |
Genus: | Aylacostoma |
Species: | A. stigmaticum |
Binomial name | |
Aylacostoma stigmaticum Hylton Scott, 1953[2] | |
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