Magazine Mountain middle-toothed snail explained

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.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Mount Magazine in Arkansas, the United States. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.

Conservation efforts

The Magazine Mountain shagreen was listed as threatened on April 17, 1989.^[1] 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.^[2] The shagreen is the first invertebrate ever removed from the federal endangered species list.^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removal of the Magazine Mountain Shagreen From the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife . Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service . Federal Register .
2. Notes on the natural history and ecology of Inflectarius magazinensis (Pilsbry and Ferriss, 1907) (Gastropoda: Polygyridae), the Magazine Mountain Shagreen. 2014. Caldwell. Ronald S.. Copeland. John E.. Mears. George L.. Douglas. Daniel A.. American Malacological Bulletin. 32. 2. 211–216. 10.4003/006.032.0211.
3. Web site: Service delists Magazine Mountain shagreen . 14 May 2013 . U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service . 2 April 2021.
4. Web site: Ceremony to mark population recovery of Arkansas snail species, Magazine Mountain shagreen . The Republic . 20 May 2013 . 2013-05-20 . dead . https://archive.today/20130616101920/http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/57b27e225a8c4fe19230dddf14f0df63/AR--Arkansas-Snail-Ceremony . 2013-06-16 .