Pondoland cannibal snail

Pondoland cannibal snail
Pondoland cannibal snail
Conservation status
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: Rhytididae
Genus: Natalina
Species: N. beyrichi
Binomial name
Natalina beyrichi
(Von Martens, 1890)

The Pondoland cannibal snail, scientific name Natalina beyrichi, is a species of medium-sized predatory air-breathing land snails, carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.

This species is endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. ^ Herbert D. G. (2000). Natalina beyrichi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

Further reading

  • Herbert, D.G. & Moussalli A. 2010. Revision of the larger cannibal snails (Natalina s. l.) of southern Africa - Natalina s. s., Afrorhytida and Capitina (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rhytididae). African Invertebrates 51 (1): 1-132. [1]