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]

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Cobble elimia
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Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)[2]
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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]
  • Goniobasis negata I. Lea, 1862
  • Melania arctata I. Lea, 1845
  • Melania pergrata I. Lea, 1861
  • Melania rubicunda I. Lea, 1861
  • Melania vanuxemiana I. Lea, 1843
  • Melania vanuxemiana var. fragosa Reeve, 1861
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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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