Gonospira dupontiana

Gonospira dupontiana
Shell of Gonospira dupontiana (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Streptaxidae
Genus:	Gonospira
Species:	G. dupontiana
Binomial name
Gonospira dupontiana (Nevill, 1870)
Synonyms
Gibbus dupontianus G. Nevill, 1870 (original combination)

Gonospira dupontiana is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 19 mm.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Mauritius and Rodriguez (in the Mascarenes)

References

1. Griffiths O. (1996). Gonospira duponti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gonospira dupontiana (G. Nevill, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289347 on 2021-01-02

• Crosse, H., 1873. Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum. Journal de Conchyliologie 21: 136-144
• Griffiths, O.L. & Florens, V.F.B. (2006). A field guide to the non-marine molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) and the northern dependencies of Mauritius. Bioculture Press: Mauritius. Pp. i–xv, 1–185.

External links

• Nevill, G. (1870). On the land-shells of Bourbon, with descriptions of a few new species. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Part II, 39 (4): 403-416. Calcutta