Aaadonta fuscozonata

Aaadonta fuscozonata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Endodontidae. This species is endemic to Palau,[2][3] where it is known from Koror and Peleliu, and the small islands of Ngemelis and the northern Rock Islands. This snail inhabits tropical moist lowland forest, and is threatened by the destruction and modification of its habitat.

Aaadonta fuscozonata
Illustrations labeled as "12" are examples of Aaadonta fuscozonata shell structure.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Endodontidae
Genus: Aaadonta
Species:
A. fuscozonata
Binomial name
Aaadonta fuscozonata
(E.H.Beddome, 1889)
Subspecies
Synonyms
  • Helix (Endodonta) fusco-zonata E.H.Beddome, 1889
  • Patula fuscozonata (Beddome, 1889)

A subspecies was identified by Solem in 1976:

References

  1. Rundell, R. J. (2012). "Aaadonta fuscozonata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T5A3084990. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T5A3084990.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  2. Endodontoid land snails from Pacific islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra) Part 1. Family Endodontidae.
  3. Endodontoid land snails from Pacific islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra) Part 1. Family Endodontidae.
  4. Endodontoid land snails from Pacific islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra) Part 1. Family Endodontidae. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1976: i-xii, 1-508. [Zoological Record Volume 115]
  • Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Sigmurethra). Alan Solem ... ; [collab.] Barbara K. Solem. Chicago, Ill. :Field Museum of Natural History,1976.
  • Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Sigmurethra). Alan Solem. Chicago :Field museum of Natural History,1982.


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