Ptychotrema mazumbiensis

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Ptychotrema mazumbiensis
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Subfamily: Ptychotrematinae
Genus: Ptychotrema
Species: P. mazumbiensis
Binomial name
Ptychotrema mazumbiensis
Tattersfield, 1999

Ptychotrema mazumbiensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.

This species is endemic to Tanzania. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. Tattersfield P. (2000). Ptychotrema mazumbiensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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