Gonospira dupontiana

Gonospira dupontiana is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.^[2]

Gonospira dupontiana
Shell of Gonospira dupontiana (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Streptaxidae
Genus:	Gonospira
Species:	G. dupontiana
Binomial name
Gonospira dupontiana (Nevill, 1870)
Synonyms
Gibbus dupontianus G. Nevill, 1870 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 19 mm.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Mauritius and Rodriguez (in the Mascarenes)