Morongo desert snail
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| Morongo desert snail | |
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| A Morongo Desert snail photographed near the bottom of Chino Canyon after a rainstorm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Xanthonychidae |
| Genus: | Eremarionta |
| Species: | E. morongoana
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| Binomial name | |
| Eremarionta morongoana (S.S. Berry, 1929)
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The Morongo desert snail (Eremarionta morongoana) is a species of land snail in the family Helminthoglyptidae.
It is endemic to California in the Western United States.
It is known only from the Morongo Basin area of the Colorado Desert−Mojave Desert ecotone, in Riverside County and San Bernardino County.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Roth, B. (1996). "Eremarionta morongoana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T7989A12880162. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T7989A12880162.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ NatureServe. 2014. Eremarionta morongoana. NatureServe Explorer. Version 7.1. Accessed September 9, 2014.
Categories:
- IUCN Red List near threatened species
- Eremarionta
- Endemic fauna of California
- Molluscs of the United States
- Fauna of the Colorado Desert
- Fauna of the Mojave Desert
- Natural history of Riverside County, California
- Natural history of San Bernardino County, California
- Sand to Snow National Monument
- Gastropods described in 1929
- Helicoidea stubs