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Aylacostoma guaraniticum

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Aylacostoma guaraniticum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Hemisinidae
Genus: Aylacostoma
Species:
A. guaraniticum
Binomial name
Aylacostoma guaraniticum
Hylton-Scot, 1953

Aylacostoma guaraniticum is a species of freshwater snail, an 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.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Mansur, M.C.D.; et al. (Mollusc Specialist Group) (2000). "Aylacostoma guaraniticum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T29611A9504659. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T29611A9504659.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Vogler (2013). The Radula of the Extinct Freshwater Snail Aylacostoma stigmaticum (Caenofastropoda: Thiaridae) from Argentina and Paraguay. Malacologia 56 (1-2): 329-332.