Mount Matafao different snail

Mount Matafao different snail
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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.


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