Rock snail

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Rock snail
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: Helicoidea
Family: Helicidae
Genus: Codringtonia
Species: C. codringtonii
Binomial name
Codringtonia codringtonii
(J. E. Gray, 1834)[2]
Synonyms

Helix codringtonii Gray, 1834
Codringtonia codringtonia (Gray, 1834) [orth error]

The rock snail, scientific name Codringtonia codringtonii, is a species of air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. This species is endemic to Greece.

References

  1. ↑ Triantis, K. & Vardinoyannis, K. (2011). "Codringtonia codringtonii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 3.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 13 April, 2012. 
  2. ↑ Gray J. E. (1834). [Various undescribed shells]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2: 57-68. page 67.
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