Ptychotrema usambarense

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

Ptychotrema usambarense

Data Deficient  (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 Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
Family:
Streptaxidae
Subfamily:
Ptychotrematinae
Genus:
Ptychotrema
Species:
P. usambarense
Binomial name
Ptychotrema usambarense
Verdcourt

This species is endemic to Tanzania.

References
  1. Tattersfield P. (1996). Ptychotrema usambarense. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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