Tasmaphena lamproides

Keeled snail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Rhytidoidea
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Tasmaphena
Species: T. lamproides
Binomial name
Tasmaphena lamproides
(Cox, 1868)

Tasmaphena lamproides is a species of land snail in the family Rhytididae. It occurs in north-western Tasmania and probably far southern Victoria.[1] It is known by the common name keeled snail.[2]

There are many small subpopulations, and the total population in Tasmania is probably a few hundred thousand snails. The snail generally lives in wet forest habitat. Some subpopulations are threatened by logging and clearing of forests for development and agriculture.[2]

References

  1. Bonham, K and Taylor R. J. (1997) Distribution and habitat of the land snail Tasmaphena lamproides (Pulmonata: Rhytididae) in Tasmania. Molluscan Research 18: 1-10
  2. 1 2 Bonham, K. 2006. Tasmaphena lamproides. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. Downloaded on 07 September 2014.


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