Forrestena
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| Mount Lewis keeled snail | |
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| File:Forrestena delicata.jpg | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Forrestena Stanisic, 2010 |
| Species: | F. delicata
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| Binomial name | |
| Forrestena delicata (Hedley, 1912)
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Forrestena is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Camaenidae.[1] It is monotypic,[citation needed] being represented by the single species Forrestena delicata, commonly known as the Mount Lewis keeled snail. The species is endemic to Australia.[2]
The genus was first described in 2010 by J. Stanisic,[2][3] while the species, Forrestana delicata, was first described in 1912 by C. Hedley as Planispira delicata,[4][5] from a specimen collected from Bels0n's scrub, Atherton, Queensland.[4]
The species is classified as "near threatened" by IUCN, due to loss of habitat.[1]
References
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- ^ Stanisic, J. in Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [448, 538]
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- ^ Planispira delicata Hedley, C. 1912. On some land shells collected in Queensland by Mr Sidney W. Jackson. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37: 253-270 [259].
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