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Hemphillia glandulosa

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Hemphillia glandulosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Binneyidae
Genus: Hemphillia
Species:
H. glandulosa
Binomial name
Hemphillia glandulosa
Thomas Bland & Binney, 1872[1]

Hemphillia glandulosa, the warty jumping-slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Binneyidae.

Hemphillia glandulosa is the type species of the genus Hemphillia.

Distribution, conservation status

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It lives in British Columbia in Canada, where the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has assessed it as a species of special concern. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as being a species of special concern in Canada.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Bland T. & Binney W. G. (1874) "Description of Hemphillia, a new Genus of Terrestrial Mollusks". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 10: 208-211. Plate 9.
  2. ^ COSEWIC. 2005. Canadian Species at Risk. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 27.
  3. ^ "Endangered Ugly Things: Might as Well Jump". April 2007.

Further reading

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