Endangered
Eleutherocaulis haroldi
Laevicaulis haroldi
Eleutherocaulis haroldi is a gastropod in the family Veronicellidae (order Systellommatophora) — Laevicaulis haroldi, recorded as Endangered.
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
Eleutherocaulis haroldi is native to South Africa.
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
In its home range in South Africa, Eleutherocaulis haroldi is endangered. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Eleutherocaulis haroldi 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 English Wikipedia article on Eleutherocaulis haroldi — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3283948. 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.
