Hypselostoma insularum is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the vertigo snails.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | H. insularum
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Distribution
editThe type locality is Yonaguni, Ryukyu Islands, Japan.[1]
It is critically endangered and endangered species.[2]
References
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Pilsbry H. A. (1908). "Two genera of land snails new to Japan and Korea". The Conchological magazine, Kyoto, 2(8): 39-42.
- ^ (in Japanese) ラッパガイ Hypselostoma insularum. Japanese Red Data Book, accessed 21 April 2010.
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