Acanthennea erinacea

Acanthennea erinacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Subfamily: Streptaxinae
Genus: Acanthennea
Martens, 1898[2]
Species: A. erinacea
Binomial name
Acanthennea erinacea
(Martens, 1898)[2]

Acanthennea erinacea is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.[3]

Acanthennea erinacea is the only species within the genus Acanthennea.[4]

Distribution

Acanthennea erinacea is endemic to Silhouette Island and Mahé Island, the Seychelles.[3][4]

References

  1. Gerlach J. (2006). Acanthennea erinacea. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 8 October 2010.
  2. 1 2 Martens E. von & Wiegmann F. (1898). "Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken der Seychellen nach den Sammlungen von Dr. Aug. Brauer". Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Sammlung des Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin 1: 1-94. 8-10, plate 1, figs 15-17.
  3. 1 2 Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  4. 1 2 Gerlach J. & Bruggen A. C. van (1999). "Streptaxidae Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of the Seychelles Islands, western Indian Ocean". Zoologische Verhandelingen 328: 1-60. abstract, PDF.


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