Mount Matafao different snail
| Mount matafao different snail | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: | Helicarionidae |
| Genus: | Diastole |
| Species: | †D. matafaoi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Diastole matafaoi | |
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 Helicarionidae.
This species was endemic to American Samoa. It is now extinct.
References
- ↑ Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Diastole matafaoi.2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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