Painted snake-coiled forest snail

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Painted Snake-coiled Forest Snail
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Stylommatophora Family: Endodontidae Genus: Anguispira Species: A. picta
Binomial name
Anguispira picta (G.H. Clapp, 1920)

The painted snake-coiled forest snail or the painted disc, scientific name Anguispira picta, is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Endodontidae.

This species is found only in one small area in Tennessee, USA.

[edit] Source

• Roth, B. 1996. Anguispira picta. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.