Newcomb's snail
| Newcomb's snail | |
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| Drawing of Erinna newcombi. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila |
| Superfamily: | Lymnaeoidea |
| Family: | Lymnaeidae |
| Genus: | Erinna |
| Species: | E. newcombi |
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Erinna newcombi H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 |
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Newcomb's snail (Erinna newcombi) is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae. This species is endemic to Hawaii, in the United States. Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Erinna newcombi is the type species of the genus Erinna.
The scientific collection efforts of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838 to 1842 obtained the first known specimens of Newcomb's snails. Historical documents indicate that the specimens were collected sometime between 25 October and 6 November 1840, at "Hanapēpē Falls," presumably what is now called Manuwaiopuna Falls, or possibly one of several other waterfalls located in the middle Hanapēpē watershed of southeast Kauaʻi. Individuals from this early collection made their way to the British Museum of Natural History and were used as the type specimens from which the species was later described in 1855.
As type locality is referred: "Heneta River, Kami, Sandwich Islands", which means Hanalei River, Kauai, Hawaii. English common name and also specific name is in honor of Dr. Wesley Newcomb, that collected them in Hawaii.
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