''Sphaerospira rockhamptonensis'', common name the Rockhampton banded snail, is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

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 ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

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 ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the family

Camaenidae Camaenidae is a Family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families i ...

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endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

References

* Cox, J.C. 1873, "Descriptions of new land-shells from Australia and the Solomon Islands", Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 1873, pp. 146-152 * Angas, G.F. 1876, "Descriptions of four new species of Helix, with some notes on Helix angasiana of Pfeiffer", Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 1876, pp. 265-268 * Brazier, J. 1881, "Notes on shells from the Solomon Islands and Australia", Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 5, pp. 444-447 * Iredale, T. 1937, "A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt II", The Australian Zoologist, vol. 9, pp. 1-39 * Smith, B.J. 1992, "Non-Marine Mollusca", Ed. Houston, W.W.K. (ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca, vol. 8, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra

External links

2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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