Cassidula plecotrematoides

Cassidula plecotrematoides
Shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Subfamily: Pythiinae
Genus: Cassidula
Species: C. plecotrematoides
Binomial name
Cassidula plecotrematoides

Cassidula plecotrematoides is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.

Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica in its natural environment.

Subspecies

  • Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica Möllendorff, 1901
  • Cassidula plecotrematoides plecotrematoides Möllendorff, 1901

Distribution

Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica occurs in Japan and it is critically endangered and endangered (CR＋EN) there.[1]

The conservation status of Cassidula plecotrematoides plecotrematoides is near threatened.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "シイノミミミガイ" [Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica] (in Japanese). 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  2. ↑ "ヒゲマキシイノミミミガイ" [Cassidula plecotrematoides plectrematoides] (in Japanese). 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  • Martins, A. M. d. F. 1998. The anatomy of Cassidula Ferussac, 1821 and a case for the revival of the Cassidulinae Odhner, 1925. In: Morton, B. (ed.) The Marine Biology of the South China Sea. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Marine Biology of the South China Sea, Hong Kong. pp. 25–42


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