Achatinella taeniolata

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Achatinella taeniolata
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Achatinellidae
Genus: Achatinella
Species: A. taeniolata
Binomial name
Achatinella taeniolata
Pfeiffer, 1846

Achatinella taeniolata, an O'ahu tree snail, is a species of colorful, tropical, tree-living, air-breathing land snail, an arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae.

Many of this group of species of arboreal snails are sinistral or left-handed in their spiral shell coiling, whereas most gastropod shells are dextral. (See the section on chirality in the article gastropod shell).

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the Hawaiian island of O`ahu.

[edit] Conservation status

This species is critically endangered.

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