Vertigo clementina
The insular birddrop or San Clemente Island blunt-top snail, scientific name Vertigo clementina, is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae.[2] (Incorrectly placed within Chondrinidae in the 2006 IUCN Red List.)[1]
| Vertigo clementina | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Vertiginidae |
| Genus: | Vertigo |
| Species: | V. clementina |
| Binomial name | |
| Vertigo clementina (Sterki, 1890) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Sterkia clementina (Sterki, 1890) | |
This species is endemic to the State of California, U.S.A. The survival of this species is "near threatened".[2]
References
- Roth B. (1996). Sterkia clementina.2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 27 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 7 August 2007.
- Sterkia clementina. NatureServe Explorer, accessed 1 August 2010.
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