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Mount Matafao different snail

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Species of mollusc

Mount Matafao different snail
Conservation status

Extinct  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Microcystidae
Genus: Diastole
Species: †D. matafaoi
Binomial name
†Diastole matafaoi
H. B. Baker, 1938

The Mount Matafao different snail, scientific name Diastole matafaoi, was a species of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Microcystidae.

This species was endemic to American Samoa. It is now extinct.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Diastole matafaoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T6523A12787323. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T6523A12787323.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
Taxon identifiers
Diastole matafaoi


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