Cassidula plecotrematoides

Cassidula plecotrematoides
Shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata

Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Subfamily: Pythiinae
Genus: Cassidula
Species: C. plecotrematoides
Binomial name
Cassidula plecotrematoides
Möllendorff, 1901

Cassidula plecotrematoides is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.

Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica in its natural environment.

Subspecies

Distribution

Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica occurs in Japan and it is critically endangered and endangered (CR+EN) there.[1]

The conservation status of Cassidula plecotrematoides plecotrematoides is near threatened.[2]

References

  1. (Japanese) . accessed 1 October 2009
  2. (Japanese) . accessed 1 October 2009
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