Taheitia lamellicosta

Taheitia lamellicosta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Truncatellidae
Genus: Taheitia
Species: T. lamellicosta
Binomial name
Taheitia lamellicosta

Taheitia lamellicosta is a species of very small land snail that has an operculum and lives very near saltwater, a maritime terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Truncatellidae. This species is endemic to Guam.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Taheitia lamellicosta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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