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Hemphillia glandulosa 
Summary
Hemphillia glandulosa, the warty jumping-slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Binneyidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Binneyidae |
| Genus: | Hemphillia |
| Species: | H. glandulosa
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Hemphillia glandulosa is the type species of the genus Hemphillia.
Distribution, conservation status edit
It lives in British Columbia in Canada, where the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has assessed it as a species of special concern. The Canadian Species at Risk Act listed it in the List of Wildlife Species at Risk as being a species of special concern in Canada.[2][3]
References edit
- ^ Bland T. & Binney W. G. (1874) "Description of Hemphillia, a new Genus of Terrestrial Mollusks". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 10: 208-211. Plate 9.
- ^ COSEWIC. 2005. Canadian Species at Risk. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 27.
- ^ "Endangered Ugly Things: Might as Well Jump". April 2007.
Further reading edit
- COSEWIC (2003). "COSEWIC assessment and status report on the warty jumping-slug Hemphillia glandulosa in Canada". Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 19 pp.
- (Originally issued as Management Recommendations (February 1998) Thomas E. Burke) Wainwright M. & Duncan N. (revised) (October 2005) Conservation Assessment for Four Species of the Genus Hemphillia". USDA Forest Service Region 6 and USDI Bureau of Land Management, Oregon and Washington. 33 pp.
- map of distribution of Hemphillia glandulosa in the USA