Pseudohelenoconcha spurca

Pseudohelenoconcha spurca is an extinct species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae.

Pseudohelenoconcha spurca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Punctoidea
Family:
Endodontidae
Genus:
Pseudohelenoconcha
Species:
P. spurca
Binomial name
Pseudohelenoconcha spurca
(Sowerby, 1844)
Synonyms
  • Pseudocampylaea dianae (Pfeiffer, 1856)
  • Pseudocampylaea laetissima (Smith, 1892)
  • Pseudocampylaea persoluta (Smith, 1892)
  • Pseudocampylaea spurca (Sowerby, 1844)

This species was found only in Saint Helena, (an island in the middle of the south Atlantic). This species is now considered to be extinct.

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