Mandarina luhuana
| Mandarina luhuana | |
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| Type figure of Mandarina luhuana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Bradybaenidae |
| Genus: | Mandarina |
| Species: | M. luhuana |
| Binomial name | |
| Mandarina luhuana | |
Mandarina luhuana is an extinct[1] species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae. This species is endemic to Chichi-jima and Minami-jima of the Bonin Islands in Japan.
Subfossli shells of Mandarina luhuana at Minami-jima, Bonin Islands
References
- ↑ Satoshi Chiba (2007). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil land snail species of the genus Mandarina in the Ogasawara Islands". Paleontological Research 11 (4): 317–329. doi:10.2517/1342-8144(2007)11[317:TROTFL]2.0.CO;2.
- Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Mandarina luhuana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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