Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'

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Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri' is an undescribed species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Bulimulinae.

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Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Subfamily: Bulimulinae
Genus: Bulimulus
Species:
B. sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'
Binomial name
Bulimulus sp. nov. 'nilsodhneri'
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This species is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The specific name nilsodhneri is apparently in honor of Swedish malacologist Nils Hjalmar Odhner.

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