Hemphillia glandulosa explained

Hemphillia glandulosa, the warty jumping-slug, is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Binneyidae.

Hemphillia glandulosa is the type species of the genus Hemphillia.

Distribution, conservation status

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.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• 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

Notes and References

1. COSEWIC. 2005. Canadian Species at Risk. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. 64 pp., page 27.
2. Web site: Endangered Ugly Things: Might as Well Jump. April 2007.