Nesopupa wesleyana

Nesopupa wesleyana is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails. This species is endemic to Hawaii, the United States.

Nesopupa wesleyana

Data Deficient  (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:
Vertiginidae
Subfamily:
Nesopupinae
Genus:
Nesopupa
Species:
N. wesleyana
Binomial name
Nesopupa wesleyana
Ancey, 1904

References
  1. Cowie R. & Pokryszko B. (1996). Nesopupa wesleyana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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