Purcell's hunter slug, scientific name Chlamydephorus purcelli, is an endangered species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Chlamydephoridae.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | C. purcelli
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| Chlamydephorus purcelli (Collinge, 1901)
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Distribution
editThis species is endemic to Table Mountain in South Africa. The survival of this slug is threatened by habitat loss.
References
edit- ^ Herbert, D.G. (2000). "Chlamydephorus purcelli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T40088A10303320. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T40088A10303320.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.