Cassidula plecotrematoides

Cassidula plecotrematoides
Shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Family:	Ellobiidae
Genus:	Cassidula
Species:	C. plecotrematoides
Binomial name
Cassidula plecotrematoides Möllendorff, 1901

Cassidula plecotrematoides is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.

Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica in its natural environment.

Subspecies

• Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica Möllendorff, 1901
• Cassidula plecotrematoides plecotrematoides Möllendorff, 1901

Distribution

Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica occurs in Japan and it is critically endangered and endangered (CR+EN) there. ^[1]

The conservation status of Cassidula plecotrematoides plecotrematoides is near threatened. ^[2]

References

1. "シイノミミミガイ" [Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica] (in Japanese). 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
2. "ヒゲマキシイノミミミガイ" [Cassidula plecotrematoides plectrematoides] (in Japanese). 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2017-05-28.

• Martins, A. M. d. F. 1998. The anatomy of Cassidula Ferussac, 1821 and a case for the revival of the Cassidulinae Odhner, 1925. In: Morton, B. (ed.) The Marine Biology of the South China Sea. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Marine Biology of the South China Sea, Hong Kong. pp. 25–42