The Morongo desert snail (Eremarionta morongoana) is a species of land snail in the family Helminthoglyptidae.
| Morongo desert snail | |
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| A Morongo Desert snail photographed near the bottom of Chino Canyon after a rainstorm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Xanthonychidae |
| Genus: | Eremarionta |
| Species: | E. morongoana
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| Binomial name | |
| Eremarionta morongoana (S.S. Berry, 1929)
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It is endemic to California in the Western United States.
It is known only from the Morongo Basin area of the Colorado Desert−Mojave Desert ecotone, in Riverside County and San Bernardino County.[2]
References
edit- ^ Roth, B. (1996). "Eremarionta morongoana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T7989A12880162. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T7989A12880162.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ NatureServe. 2014. Eremarionta morongoana. NatureServe Explorer. Version 7.1. Accessed September 9, 2014.