Euhadra peliomphala

Euhadra peliomphala
Euhadra peliomphala from Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Euhadra
Species:
E. peliomphala
Binomial name
Euhadra peliomphala
(Pfeiffer, 1850)

Euhadra peliomphala is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae.

This species is endemic to Japan. The species exhibits exceptional geographical variation in its mitochondrial DNA.[1]

  1. ^ Hayashi, M. & S. Chiba. 2000. Intraspecific diversity of mitochondrial DNA in the land snail Euhadra peliomphala (Bradybaenidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70(3): 391–401. doi:10.1006/bijl.1999.0376