Hypselostoma insularum

Hypselostoma insularum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Gastrocoptinae
Genus: Hypselostoma
Species: H. insularum
Binomial name
Hypselostoma insularum
Pilsbry, 1908[1]

Hypselostoma insularum is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the vertigo snails.

Distribution

The type locality is Yonaguni, Ryukyu Islands, Japan.[1]

It is critically endangered and endangered species.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Pilsbry H. A. (1908). "Two genera of land snails new to Japan and Korea". The Conchological magazine, Kyoto, 2(8): 39-42.
  2. (Japanese) ラッパガイ Hypselostoma insularum. Japanese Red Data Book, accessed 21 April 2010.


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