Insular birddrop

Insular birddrop
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Pupillidae
Genus: Sterkia
Species: S. clementina
Binomial name
Sterkia clementina
(Sterki, 1890)

The insular birddrop or San Clemente Island blunt-top snail, scientific name Sterkia clementina, is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Pupillidae.[2] (Incorrectly placed within Chondrinidae in the 2006 IUCN Red List.)[1]

This species is endemic to the State of California, U.S.A. The survival of this species is "near threatened".[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roth B. (1996). Sterkia clementina.2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.