Trachycystis placenta

Trachycystis placenta
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: Charopidae
Genus: Trachycystis
Species: T. placenta
Binomial name
Trachycystis placenta
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1899)

Trachycystis placenta is a species of very small, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae.

This species is endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. Herbert D. G. (2004). Trachycystis placenta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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