Aaadonta pelewana

Aaadonta pelewana

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Endodontidae
Genus: Aadonta
Species: A. pelewana
Binomial name
Aaadonta pelewana[2]
Solem, 1976

Aaadonta pelewana is a species of snail,[3] a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae. It is found in Palau,[4][5] where it was known from Peleliu and Koror. If it is still extant, it is threatened by the destruction and modification of its tropical moist lowland forest habitat.

References

  1. Rundell, R. J. (2012). "Aaadonta pelewana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=7114895
  3. http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=1686
  4. Endodontoid land snails from Pacific islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra) Part 1. Family Endodontidae. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1976: i-xii, 1-508. [Zoological Record Volume 115]
  5. http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/search.htm?c[0].s=20&c[0].p=0&c[0].o=23231305


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