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
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". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T12750A3376939. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T12750A3376939.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  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.


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