Bulimulus planospira

Bulimulus planospira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Orthalicidae
Subfamily: Bulimulinae
Genus: Bulimulus
Species: B. planospira
Binomial name
Bulimulus planospira
(Ancey, 1887)

Bulimulus planospira is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulimulinae.

This species is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. Parent C. (2003). Bulimulus planospira. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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