Allogona townsendiana

Allogona townsendiana
Allogona townsendiana from W. G. Binney, 1878[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:	Allogona
Species:	A. townsendiana
Binomial name
Allogona townsendiana

Allogona townsendiana, common name the Oregon forestsnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Polygyridae.

Distribution and conservation status

This snail species lives in British Columbia in Canada, and it is endangered species there. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as being endangered in Canada.^[2]

References

1. ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 19.
2. ^ COSEWIC. 2005. Canadian Species at Risk. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 13.

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