Hirasea acutissima

Hirasea acutissima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Punctoidea
Family: Endodontidae
Genus: Hirasea
Species: H. acutissima
Binomial name
Hirasea acutissima

Hirasea acutissima is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae.

Hirasea acutissima was endemic to Haha-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan.

Hirasea acutissima is listed as endangered in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[2][3]

Hirasea acutissima species is considered to be extinct by Chiba et al. (2007).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Chiba S., Davison A. & Mori H. (2007) "Endemic Land Snail Fauna (Mollusca) on a Remote Peninsula in the Ogasawara Archipelago, Northwestern Pacific". Pacific Science 61(2): 257–265. doi:10.2984/1534-6188(2007)61[257:ELSFMO]2.0.CO;2.
  2. Tomiyama K. (1996). Hirasea acutissima. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
  3. Tomiyama K. (1996). Hirasea acutissima. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 1 March 2010.
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