Rock snail

The rock snail, scientific name Codringtonia codringtonii, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.^[1][5][6]

Rock snail
Codringtonia codringtonii in the wild in Greece
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicidae
Genus:	Codringtonia
Species:	C. codringtonii
Binomial name
Codringtonia codringtonii (Gray, 1834)[2]
Synonyms[3]
Codringtonia (Codringtonia) codringtonii (Gray, 1834) Codringtonia (Codringtonia) gittenbergeri Subai, 2005 Codringtonia gittenbergeri Subai, 2005 Helix codringtonii J. E. Gray, 1834[4] Helix avariensis L. Pfeiffer, 1848

Geographic distribution

C. codringtonii is endemic to Greece, where it occurs in the south-western part of the Peloponnese.^[1][5][6]