Elimia melanoides (Conrad, 1834)
Black mudalia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Leptoxis melanoides (Contrad, 1834); Leptoxis melanoidus (Conrad, 1834)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Alabama, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Bogan, A. E. (1996). Leptoxis melanoides. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 July 2013.
Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Johnson, P.D., A.E. Bogan, K.M. Brown, N.M. Burkhead,J.R. Cordeiro, J.T. Garner, P.D. Hartfield, D.A.W.Lepitzki, G.L. Mackie, E. Pip, T.A. Tarpley, J.S. Tiemann,N.V. Whelan and E.S. Strong. 2013. Conservation status offreshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States.Fisheries 38: 247–282.
Minton, R. L., Garner, J. T. and Lydeard, C. (2003). Rediscovery, systematic position, and re-description of “Leptoxis” melanoides (Conrad, 1834) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pleuroceridae) from the Black Warrior River, Alabama, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116(3): 531-541.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.