Magazine Mountain middle-toothed snail

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.

Magazine Mountain middle-toothed snail
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
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

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]