Hemphillia glandulosa
Scientific classification
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clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
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H. glandulosa
Binomial name
Hemphillia glandulosa
Thomas Bland & Binney, 1872[1]

The Hemphillia glandulosa, common name the warty jumping-slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae.

Hemphillia glandulosa is the type species of the genus Hemphillia.

Distribution, conservation status

It lives in British Columbia in Canada, where the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has assessed it as a species of special concern. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as being a species of special concern in Canada.[2][3]

References

  1. โ†‘ Bland T. & Binney W. G. (1874) "Description of Hemphillia, a new Genus of Terrestrial Mollusks". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 10: 208-211. Plate 9.
  2. โ†‘ COSEWIC. 2005. Canadian Species at Risk. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 27.
  3. โ†‘ "Endangered Ugly Things: Might as Well Jump". April 2007.

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