Biology:Catalina mountain snail

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Catalina mountain snail

Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Oreohelicidae
Genus: Radiocentrum
Species:
R. avalonense
Binomial name
Radiocentrum avalonense
(Hemphill, 1905)
Synonyms[3]

Oreohelix (Radiocentrum) avalonense Hemphill, 1905

The Catalina mountain snail (Radiocentrum avalonense) is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oreohelicidae.

This species is endemic to the United States, found only on Santa Catalina Island in the Channel Islands of California.[4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q3073104 entry