Pronesopupa incerta
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Pronesopupa incerta is a species
of air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupillidae
. It is endemic to the United States
.
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of air-breathing land snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Pupillidae
Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Stylommatophora....
. It is endemic to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Source
- Cowie, R. & Pokryseko, B. 1996. Pronesopupa incerta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.