Endangered
Costate Cinderella Snail
Desbruyeresia costata
Costate Cinderella Snail is a gastropod in the family Desbruyeresiidae — Desbruyeresia costata, recorded as Endangered and tied to Papua New Guinea and Japan.
The gastropod
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
Costate Cinderella Snail is recorded from Papua New Guinea and Japan.
GBIF currently lists 8 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
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
Costate Cinderella Snail is 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 Dutch Wikipedia article on Desbruyeresia costata, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q106072033 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
