Purcell's hunter slug

Purcell's hunter slug
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Rhytidoidea
Family:	Chlamydephoridae
Genus:	Chlamydephorus
Species:	C. purcelli
Binomial name
Chlamydephorus purcelli (Collinge, 1901)

Purcell's hunter slug, scientific name Chlamydephorus purcelli, is an endangered species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chlamydephoridae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Table Mountain in South Africa. The survival of this slug is threatened by habitat loss.

References

1. ^ Herbert D. G. (2000). Chlamydephorus purcelli. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.

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