Morongo desert snail

The Morongo desert snail (Eremarionta morongoana) is a species of land snail in the family Helminthoglyptidae.

Morongo desert snail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Helminthoglyptidae
Genus:
Eremarionta
Species:
E. morongoana
Binomial name
Eremarionta morongoana
(S.S. Berry, 1929)
A Morongo Desert snail photographed near the bottom of Chino Canyon after a rainstorm.

It is endemic to California in the Western United States.

It is known only from the Morongo Basin area of the Colorado Desert−Mojave Desert ecotone, in Riverside County and San Bernardino County.[2]

References
  1. Roth, B. (1996). "Eremarionta morongoana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T7989A12880162. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T7989A12880162.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. NatureServe. 2014. Eremarionta morongoana. NatureServe Explorer. Version 7.1. Accessed September 9, 2014.


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