Nancibella quintalia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Microcystidae
- Genus
- Nancibella
- Species
- Nancibella quintalia
- Scientific Name
- Nancibella quintalia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Nancibella quintalia
Nancibella quintalia is a species of air-breathing land snail or semislug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicarionidae.
This species is endemic to Norfolk Island. It was thought to be extinct as of the mid-1990s, and the latest IUCN assessment, which is outdated, still lists it as Extinct. However, in 2020, a living specimen of the snail was discovered in the wild, leading scientists to believe a small population still exists.
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