Hirasea insignis

Hirasea insignis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Endodontidae
Genus: Hirasea
Species: H. insignis
Binomial name
Hirasea insignis

Hirasea insignis is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae.

This is an endangered species.

Distribution

This species (and indeed the whole genus) is endemic to Japan.

References

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