Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'

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Bulimulus sp. nov. "nilsodhneri"

Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Bulimulinae
Genus:
Species:
B. sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'
Binomial name
Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'

Bulimulus sp. nov. "nilsodhneri" is an undescribed species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulimulinae.

This species is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The specific name nilsodhneri is apparently in honor of Swedish malacologist Nils Hjalmar Odhner.

References[]

  1. ^ Parent C. (2003). Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 6 August 2007.


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