Hirasea acutissima

Hirasea acutissima is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae. The width of the shell is 2 mm. The height of the shell is 4 mm. H. acutissima was endemic to Haha-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and is listed as endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[2][3] The species is considered to be extinct by Chiba et al. (2007).[1]

Hirasea acutissima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Punctoidea
Family:
Endodontidae
Genus:
Hirasea
Species:
H. acutissima
Binomial name
Hirasea acutissima

References
  1. Chiba S., Davison A. & Mori H. (2007) "Endemic Land Snail Fauna (Mollusca) on a Remote Peninsula in the Ogasawara Archipelago, Northwestern Pacific". Pacific Science 61(2): 257–265. doi:10.2984/1534-6188(2007)61[257:ELSFMO]2.0.CO;2.
  2. Tomiyama K. (1996). Hirasea acutissima. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  3. Tomiyama K. (1996). Hirasea acutissima. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 1 March 2010.


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