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Aaadonta angaurana

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Aaadonta angaurana

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata

clade Stylommatophora
Family:
Endodontidae
Genus:
Aaadonta
Species:
A. angaurana
Binomial name
Aaadonta angaurana
Solem, 1976

Aaadonta angaurana is a small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Endodontidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Angaur in the Palau Islands, as all members of the genus Aaadonta are endemic to Palau.[2][3] It is known only from one locality, where it was last found in 1936. None have been found recently and they might be extinct.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Template:IUCN2014.2
  2. ^ Endodontoid land snails from Pacific islands: (Mollusca, Pulmonata, Sigmurethra)
  3. ^ 1996 Red List of Threatened Animals

References

  • Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Sigmurethra). Alan Solem ... ; [collab.] Barbara K. Solem. Chicago, Ill. :Field Museum of Natural History,1976.
  • Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Sigmurethra). Alan Solem. Chicago :Field museum of Natural History,1982.

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