Trochochlamys ogasawarana

Trochochlamys ogasawarana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Euconulidae
Genus: Trochochlamys
Species: T. ogasawarana
Binomial name
Trochochlamys ogasawarana

Trochochlamys ogasawarana is a species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Euconulidae.

The survival of this land snail species is critically endangered.

NOTE: The combination Trochochlamys ogasawarana, from the source below, cannot be traced with certainty to any known snail species, but it may be the species described by Pilsbry (1902) as Kaliella ogasawarana.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Japan.

References

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