Pupisoma orcula

Pupisoma orcula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Valloniidae
Genus: Pupisoma
Subgenus: Ptychopatula
Species: P. orcula
Binomial name
Pupisoma orcula
(Benson, 1850)

Pupisoma orcula is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusks in the family Valloniidae.[2]

This species is endemic to Micronesia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

This species is endemic to Micronesia, but one broken specimen was found in Afghanistan in 1979.[3]

References

  1. Seddon M. B. (2000). Pupisoma orcula. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. Seddon M. B. (2000). Pupisoma orcula. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 5 April 2011.
  3. Solem A. (1979) "Some mollusks from Afghanistan". Fieldiana Zoology new series 1: 1-89. Page 13-14.


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