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Species of gastropod

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Gonyostomus goniostomus
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Acavoidea
Family: Strophocheilidae
Genus: Gonyostomus
Species: G. goniostomus
Binomial name
Gonyostomus goniostomus
Férussac, 1821

Gonyostomus goniostomus is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Strophocheilidae.

This species is endemic to Brazil. Although it has sometimes been thought to be extinct, it has nonetheless been found on the Buzios Island off the northern coast of the São Paulo State

References

  1. A new species of the genus Gonyostomus from Brazil
  2. Hawaiian Shell news, volume XLII (6), June 1994
Taxon identifiers
Gonyostomus goniostomus


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