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Ashmunella harrisi

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Ashmunella harrisi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Ashmunella
Species:
A. harrisi
Binomial name
Ashmunella harrisi
Metcalf & Smartt 1977[1]

Ashmunella harrisi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Polygyridae.

Type specimens

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Holotype

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The holotype was collected on April 11, 1975[1] from limestone talus on the north-facing wall of a canyon indenting the East side of Goat Mountain. It is deposited at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University ANSP 340724.[1]

Paratypes

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Paratypes are deposited at

Distribution

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Known from two canyons on the east side of Goat Mountain in the southeastern part of the San Andres Mountains.[1]

Etymology

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The species is named in honor of Dr. Arthur H. Harris, who first collected the species.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Metcalf, Artie L. (1977). "Two new species of Ashmunella from Dona Ana County, New Mexico, with notes on the Ashmunella kochii Clapp complex (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Polygyridae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 90: 849–876. Retrieved 12 April 2020.