Vitrinula chaunax

Vitrinula chaunax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade

Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Ariophantidae
Subfamily: Macrochlamydinae
Genus: Vitrinula
Species: V. chaunax
Binomial name
Vitrinula chaunax

Vitrinula chaunax is an extinct species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Ariophantidae. This species was endemic to Japan.

References

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


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