Cryptomastix devia

Cryptomastix devia
Cryptomastix devia
Conservation status
NE[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Polygyridae
Genus: Cryptomastix
Species: C. devia
Binomial name
Cryptomastix devia
(Gould, 1846)

Cryptomastix devia, common name the Puget Oregonian snail, (Escargot du Puget) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

Distribution and conservation status

This species lived in British Columbia. It has not been observed alive in Canada since 1905.[2] It is listed as extirpated species (locally extinct in Canada) in List of Wildlife Species at Risk in Species at Risk Act in Canada.

References

  1. ^ IUCN (2007). 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 27 September 2008.
  2. ^ COSEWIC. 2005. Canadian Species at Risk. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 8.
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