Ptychotrema usambarense

Ptychotrema usambarense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Subfamily: Ptychotrematinae
Genus: Ptychotrema
Species: P. usambarense
Binomial name
Ptychotrema usambarense
Verdcourt

Ptychotrema usambarense is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.

This species is endemic to Tanzania.

References

  1. Tattersfield P. (1996). Ptychotrema usambarense. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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