Concentrated snail
The concentrated snail also known as the Santa Barbara Island snail, scientific name Micrarionta facta, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helminthoglyptidae.
Concentrated snail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Xanthonychidae |
Genus: | Micrarionta |
Species: | M. facta |
Binomial name | |
Micrarionta facta (Newcomb, 1864) | |
This species is endemic to the United States.
Sources
- Roth, B. (1996). "Micrarionta facta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T13299A3525895. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T13299A3525895.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
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