Polymita picta | |
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Five views of a shell of Polymita picta, typical colour | |
Conservation status
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CITES Appendix I (CITES)[1]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Helminthoglyptidae |
Genus: | Polymita |
Species: | P. picta
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Binomial name | |
Polymita picta (Born, 1778)
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Polymita picta, also known as the Cuban painted snail, or the oriente tree snail, is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helminthoglyptidae.[2]
It is the type species of the genus Polymita, and is endemic to Eastern Cuba.