cobble elimia

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.175299 - Elimia vanuxemiana (Lea, 1843) - Pleuroceridae - Mollusc shell.jpeg

| status = EX

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Bogan, A.E. |collaboration=Mollusc Specialist Group |year=2000 |title=Elimia vanuxemiana |page=e.T7587A12833492 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T7587A12833492.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| status2 = G1

| status2_system = TNC

| status2_ref =

| taxon = Elimia vanuxemiana

| authority = I. Lea, 1843

| synonyms = {{species list

|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}}

| synonyms_ref = MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Elimia vanuxemiana (I. Lea, 1843). Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1116986 on 2023-10-13

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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.

As of 2000, the species was considered extinct by the IUCN. It was rediscovered in the wild in 2005,[http://www.mobileriverbasin.org/snails.htm Mobile River Basin Coalition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928103058/http://www.mobileriverbasin.org/snails.htm |date=2007-09-28 }} but is still considered critically imperiled.{{cite web |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.115100/Elimia_vanuxemiana |title=Elimia vanuxemiana|version=7.1 |author=NatureServe |author-link=NatureServe |date=2018 |publisher=NatureServe |location=Arlington, Virginia |access-date=2018-12-12 |ref=NS}}