Thaumatodon multilamellata
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Thaumatodon multilamellata was a species of minute air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae
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This species was found only in the Cook Islands. It now appears to be extinct.
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
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae
Endodontidae
Endodontidae is a taxonomic family of very small air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoidea....
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This species was found only in the Cook Islands. It now appears to be extinct.
Source
- Seddon, M.B. 1996. Thaumatodon multilamellata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.