Critically Endangered
Trachycystis placenta
Trachycystis placenta
Trachycystis placenta is a land snail in the family Charopidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered.
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
This species is endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical, moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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
Trachycystis placenta 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 Trachycystis placenta — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q263956. 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.
