The Morongo desert snail (Eremarionta morongoana) is a species of land snail in the family Helminthoglyptidae.
Morongo desert snail | |
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A Morongo Desert snail photographed near the bottom of Chino Canyon after a rainstorm | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Xanthonychidae |
Genus: | Eremarionta |
Species: | E. morongoana
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Binomial name | |
Eremarionta morongoana (S.S. Berry, 1929)
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It is endemic to California in the Western United States.
It is known only from the Morongo Basin area of the Colorado Desert−Mojave Desert ecotone, in Riverside County and San Bernardino County.[2]