Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Bertia cambojiensis (Bertia cambojiensis), recorded as Critically Endangered
Bertia cambojiensis (Bertia cambojiensis). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Critically Endangered

Bertia cambojiensis

Bertia cambojiensis

Bertia cambojiensis is a land snail in the family Dyakiidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered.

Status
Critically Endangered
Scientific name
Bertia cambojiensis
Taxonomy
Gastropoda · Stylommatophora · Dyakiidae · Bertia

The land snail

These are the familiar land snails and slugs: air-breathing gastropods with a lung, not a gill.

Gastropods are snails and slugs. The animal is the soft body; the shell, when present, is grown, not worn like a stone.

Range and habitat

No country pin is stored for Bertia cambojiensis on this catalog. That is a missing field, not proof the animal has no range.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet

Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.

In crisis

Bertia cambojiensis is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bertia cambojiensis — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q19766045. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

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Quick answers

What is Bertia cambojiensis?
Bertia cambojiensis is a land snail in the family Dyakiidae (order Stylommatophora).
What is the conservation status of Bertia cambojiensis?
Critically Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Bertia cambojiensis. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Bertia cambojiensis live?
Bertia cambojiensis, also known as Vietnamese giant snail or Vietnamese giant magnolia snail, is a critically endangered species of air-breathing land snail, recorded from Cambodia and southern Vietnam.
Why is Bertia cambojiensis in crisis?
It is Critically Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Bertia cambojiensis?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Bertia cambojiensis a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.