Insular birddrop

The insular birddrop or San Clemente Island blunt-top snail, scientific name Sterkia clementina, is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pupillidae.[2] (Incorrectly placed within Chondrinidae in the 2006 IUCN Red List.)[1]

Insular birddrop

Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Pupillidae
Genus:
Sterkia
Species:
S. clementina
Binomial name
Sterkia clementina
(Sterki, 1890)

This species is endemic to the State of California, U.S.A. The survival of this species is "near threatened".[2]

References
  1. Roth B. (1996). Sterkia clementina.2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.


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