Hyperaulax ridleyi
| Hyperaulax ridleyi | |
|---|---|
| Drawing of the apertural view of a shell of Hyperaulax ridleyi. | |
| Drawing of the umibilical view of a shell of Hyperaulax ridleyi. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Odontostomidae |
| Genus: | Hyperaulax |
| Species: | H. ridleyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyperaulax ridleyi (E. A. Smith, 1890) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bulimulus (Hyperaulax) ridleyi | |
Hyperaulax ridleyi is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Odontostomidae.
Hyperaulax ridleyi is the type species of the genus Hyperaulax.
This species is native to, and its occurrence is restricted to, Fernando de Noronha, an island off the coast of Brazil. The snail was described in 1890 by Edgar Albert Smith, a zoologist with the British Museum. The type specimen is stored in the British Museum of Natural History.