''Eostrobilops yaeyamensis'' is a

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of air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

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s in the family

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Distribution

This species occurs in: *

Yaeyama Islands The Yaeyama Islands (八重山列島 ''Yaeyama-rettō'', also 八重山諸島 ''Yaeyama-shotō'', Yaeyama: ''Yaima'', Yonaguni: ''Daama'', Okinawan: ''Yeema'', Northern Ryukyuan: ''Yapema'') are an archipelago in the southwest of Okinawa Pref ...

, Japan The type locality is

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, Irimote Island,

. This is a

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.ヤエヤマクチミゾガイ ''Enteroplax yaeyamensis''
''Japanese Red Data Book'', accessed 21 April 2010.

Description

The width of the shell is 2.2 mm; the height of the shell is 1.7 mm.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5380241 Strobilopsidae Endemic molluscs of Japan Endemic fauna of the Ryukyu Islands Gastropods described in 1974