''Chamalycaeus yanoshigehumii'' is a species of tropical land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial

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 ...

mollusks in the family

Alycaeidae Alycaeidae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Alycaeidae W. T. Blanford, 1864. Accessed thro ...

. This species is endemic to

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

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Molluscs of Japan yanoshigehumii Gastropods described in 1987 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cyclophoridae-stub