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August 21, 2007

Threatened

A list of the common names of a few of the world's endangered species of snails

(mostly from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Wikipedia)

• Cherrystone Drop
• Wing Snaggletooth
• Bruneau hot springsnail
• Occult Vertigo
• Lacy Elimia
• Hidden Pebblesnail
• Rolling Pebblesnail
• Painted rocksnail
• Magazine Mountain Middle-toothed Snail,
• Bliss Rapids Snail
• Flat-spired three-toothed snail
• Noonday snail
• Painted snake coiled forest snail
• Snake River physa snail
• Virginia fringed mountain snail
• Tumbling Creek Cavesnail
• Glutinous snail
• Little whirlpool ram's-horn snail
• Narrow-mouthed whorl snail
• Sandbowl snail
• Banded Dune Snail
• Spiny River Snail
• Pondoland Cannibal Snail
• Short Samoan Tree Snail
• Painted snake coiled forest snail

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