Cookeconcha contorta

Cookeconcha contorta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Endodontidae
Genus: Cookeconcha
Species: C. contorta
Binomial name
Cookeconcha contorta
(Férussac, 1825)
Synonyms

Cookeconcha sp. (Férussac, 1825)

Cookeconcha contorta is a species of very small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae.

Distribution

This species is found only in Hawaii, and is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. Cowie R. H. (2000) Cookeconcha contorta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
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