Pupisoma orcula | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
Family: | Valloniidae |
Genus: | Pupisoma |
Subgenus: | Ptychopatula |
Species: | P. orcula |
Binomial name | |
Pupisoma orcula (Benson, 1850) |
Pupisoma orcula is a species of minute, air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc or micromollusks in the family Valloniidae.[2]
This species is endemic to Micronesia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
This species endemic to Micronesia, but one broken specimen was found to be introduced in Afghanistan in 1979.[3]