Helicodiscus diadema

Taxobox
name = Helicodiscus diadema
status = LR/nt | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Stylommatophora
familia = Endodontidae
genus = "Helicodiscus"
species = "H. diadema"
binomial = "Helicodiscus diadema"
binomial_authority = Grimm, 1967
synonyms =

"Helicodiscus diadema" or the "Virginia fringed mountain snail" is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae.

Distribution

This species is found only in one small part of the state of Virginia, in the USA.

Conservation status

The survival of this species is "near threatened".

References

* Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/9801/all Helicodiscus diadema] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 19 July 2007.