Rhachistia aldabrae
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Rhachistia aldabrae, the Aldabra banded snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Cerastidae. The species lives on one atoll in the Seychelles Islands, Indian Ocean, and is easily recognizable for its purplish-blue banded shell. The species was thought to have died out because of climate change,[3] but was rediscovered in 2014.
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Rhachistia aldabrae | |
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Drawing of the shell of Rhachistia aldabrae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Cerastidae |
Genus: | Rhachistia |
Species: | R. aldabrae |
Binomial name | |
Rhachistia aldabrae (von Martens, 1898)[2] | |
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