Nesopupa oahuensis

Nesopupa oahuensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Nesopupinae
Genus: Nesopupa
Species: N. oahuensis
Binomial name
Nesopupa oahuensis
Cooke & Pilsbry, 1920

Nesopupa oahuensis is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails. This species is endemic to Hawaii in the USA.

References

  1. Cowie R. & Pokryszko B. (1996). Nesopupa oahuensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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