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Morongo desert snail

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Morongo desert snail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Helminthoglyptidae
Genus:
Eremarionta
Species:
E. morongoana
Binomial name
Eremarionta morongoana
(S.S. Berry, 1929)
morongo-desert-snail
A Morongo Desert snail photographed near the bottom of Chino Canyon after a rainstorm.

The Morongo desert snail (Eremarionta morongoana) is a species of land snail in the family Helminthoglyptidae.

It is endemic to California in the Western United States.

It is known only from the Morongo Basin area of the Colorado Desert−Mojave Desert ecotone, in Riverside County and San Bernardino County.[1]

References

  1. ^ NatureServe. 2014. Eremarionta morongoana. NatureServe Explorer. Version 7.1. Accessed September 9, 2014.
  • Roth, B. 1996. Eremarionta morongoana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. Downloaded on 9 September 2014.


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