Mandarina luhuana

Mandarina luhuana is an extinct[3] species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae. This species is endemic to Chichi-jima and Minami-jima of the Bonin Islands in Japan.

Subfossils of Mandarina luhuana at Minami-jima, Bonin Islands

Mandarina luhuana
Type figure of Mandarina luhuana
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
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:	Bradybaenidae
Genus:	Mandarina
Species:	M. luhuana
Binomial name
Mandarina luhuana (Sowerby, 1839)[2]
Synonyms
Helix luhuana Sowerby, 1839 Mandarina luhuana (Sowerby, 1839) Nanina ruschenbergeri Pilsbry, 1890 Mandarina ruschenbergeri (Pilsbry, 1890)

Subspecies

• Mandarina luhuana luhuana (Sowerby, 1839)
• Mandarina luhuana minamijima Chiba, 2007[3]

References

1. Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Mandarina luhuana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
2. Sowerby G. B. (1839) Molluscous animals and their shells (by Gray J. E., continued by Sowerby G. B.). in: Beechey F. W. ed. The Zoology of Captain Beecheyls Voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits, p. 103-155, H. G. Born, London, p. 143, p. 35, fig. 4.
3. Satoshi Chiba (2007). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil land snail species of the genus Mandarina in the Ogasawara Islands". Paleontological Research. 11 (4): 317–329. doi:10.2517/1342-8144(2007)11[317:TROTFL]2.0.CO;2.