Cylindrovertilla kingi

Cylindrovertilla kingi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Nesopupinae
Genus: Cylindrovertilla
Species: C. kingi
Binomial name
Cylindrovertilla kingi
(Cox, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Pupa kingi Cox, 1864
  • Pupa mastersi Cox, 1864
  • Wallivertilla kingi negata Iredale, 1940

Cylindrovertilla kingi, common name King's amber pupasnail, is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

Distribution

This terrestrial species is endemic to Australia.and occurs in New South Wales and Queensland

References

  1. ↑ Ponder W. F. & Stanisic J. (1996). Cylindrovertilla kingi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
  • Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp.
  • Iredale, T. 1940. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Australian Naturalist 10: 227-236
  • Solem, A. 1991. Distribution and diversity patterns of Australian pupilloid land snails (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Pupillidae, s.l.). Veliger 34(3): 233-252
  • Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp.


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