Conturbatia crenata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Streptaxoidea |
Family: | Streptaxidae |
Genus: | Conturbatia Gerlach, 2001[2] |
Species: | C. crenata |
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Conturbatia crenata Gerlach, 2001[2] |
Conturbatia crenata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.[1] It is the only species in the genus Conturbatia.[2]
Conturbatia crenata is possibly extinct.[1] The last record of this species alive was in 2000.[1] It is thought, that the population of Conturbatia crenata has been poisoned with rodenticide Brodifacoum in 2000.[1]
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Conturbatia crenata is endemic to the Frégate Island in the Seychelles.[1]
Conturbatia crenata has reduced radula.[2]
Conturbatia crenata lives in woodland areas with Pterocarpus indicus, also known as the New Guinea Rosewood tree.[2] It inhabits leaf litter and habitats with dead wood.[1]
Conturbatia crenata feeds on carrion.[2]