Critically Endangered
Pseudogibbula duponti
Pseudogibbula duponti
Pseudogibbula duponti is a snail in the family Assimineidae (order Littorinimorpha), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Republic of the Congo.
The sea or spring snail
This snail order mixes marine periwinkles with tiny freshwater and spring taxa. The shared trait is an operculum in most families.
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
Pseudogibbula duponti is recorded from Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Republic of the Congo.
GBIF currently lists 201 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
Pseudogibbula duponti 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 Wikidata item Q81848438 and GBIF occurrence geography. No dedicated encyclopedia article was available at build time. Family and order context is original writing about the group — not a claim that a monograph exists for this name. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
