Allogona townsendiana, common name the Oregon forestsnail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Polygyridae.
| Allogona townsendiana | |
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| Allogona townsendiana from W. G. Binney, 1878[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Genus: | Allogona |
| Species: | A. townsendiana
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| Binomial name | |
| Allogona townsendiana (I.Lea, 1838)
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Distribution and conservation status
editThis snail species lives in British Columbia in Canada, and it is endangered species there. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as being endangered in Canada.[2]
References
edit- ^ Binney, William G. (1878). The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States and Adjacent Territories of North America. Vol. 5 (plates). Bull. Mus. Comparative Zool., Harvard. Plate 19.
- ^ COSEWIC. 2005. Canadian Species at Risk. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 13.
External links
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