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Morongo desert snail

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Morongo desert snail
A Morongo Desert snail photographed near the bottom of Chino Canyon after a rainstorm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Xanthonychidae
Genus: Eremarionta
Species:
E. morongoana
Binomial name
Eremarionta morongoana
(S.S. Berry, 1929)

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 DesertMojave Desert ecotone, in Riverside County and San Bernardino County.[2]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ NatureServe. 2014. Eremarionta morongoana. NatureServe Explorer. Version 7.1. Accessed September 9, 2014.