''Cassidula plecotrematoides'' is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a

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 includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family Ellobiidae. Shiinomimimigai0905-2

Subspecies

* ''Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica'' Möllendorff, 1901 * ''Cassidula plecotrematoides plecotrematoides'' Möllendorff, 1901

Distribution

''Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica'' occurs in Japan and it is critically endangered and endangered (CR＋EN) there. The conservation status of ''Cassidula plecotrematoides plecotrematoides'' is near threatened.

References

* Martins, A. M. d. F. 1998. ''The anatomy of Cassidula Ferussac, 1821 and a case for the revival of the Cassidulinae Odhner, 1925''. In: Morton, B. (ed.) The Marine Biology of the South China Sea. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Marine Biology of the South China Sea, Hong Kong. pp. 25–42 Ellobiidae Gastropods described in 1901 {{Ellobiidae-stub