Helicodiscus diadema

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Helicodiscus diadema
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Endodontidae
Genus: Helicodiscus
Species: H. diadema
Binomial name
Helicodiscus diadema
Grimm, 1967

Helicodiscus diadema or the "Virginia fringed mountain snail" is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae.

[edit] Distribution

This species is found only in one small part of the state of Virginia, in the USA.

[edit] Conservation status

The survival of this species is "near threatened".

[edit] References


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