Achatinella bellula

Achatinella bellula
Achatinella bellula shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinellidae
Genus: Achatinella
Subgenus: Achatinellastrum
Species: A. bellula
Binomial name
Achatinella bellula
Smith, 1873

Achatinella bellula is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae. This species is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Oahu in the United States. No more than five specimens have been observed since 1979.[2]

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