Magazine Mountain middle-toothed snail

Magazine Mountain middle-toothed snail
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Polygyridae
Genus:	Inflectarius
Species:	I. magazinensis
Binomial name
Inflectarius magazinensis (Pilsbry & Ferris, 1907)
Synonyms
Mesodon magazinensis Pilsbry & Ferris, 1907

The Magazine Mountain middle-toothed snail, also known as the Magazine Mountain shagreen, scientific name Inflectarius magazinensis, is a species of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Mount Magazine in Arkansas, the United States. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.^[1][2]

Conservation efforts

The Magazine Mountain shagreen was listed as threatened on April 17, 1989.^[2] Thanks to efforts from the U.S. Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, the snail was removed from the endangered list in May 2013.^[3] The shagreen is the first invertebrate ever removed from the federal endangered species list.^[4][5]

References

1. Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). "Inflectarius magazinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2000: e.T39942A10294114. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2000.RLTS.T39942A10294114.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removal of the Magazine Mountain Shagreen From the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife (PDF). Federal Register. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service.78 FR 28513
3. Caldwell, Ronald S.; Copeland, John E.; Mears, George L.; Douglas, Daniel A. (2014). "Notes on the natural history and ecology of Inflectarius magazinensis (Pilsbry and Ferriss, 1907) (Gastropoda: Polygyridae), the Magazine Mountain Shagreen". American Malacological Bulletin. 32 (2): 211–216. doi:10.4003/006.032.0211.
4. "Service delists Magazine Mountain shagreen". U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 14 May 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
5. "Ceremony to mark population recovery of Arkansas snail species, Magazine Mountain shagreen". The Republic. 20 May 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2013-05-20.