Morongo desert snail
Species of gastropod
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The Morongo desert snail (Eremarionta morongoana) is a species of land snail in the family Helminthoglyptidae.
| Morongo desert snail | |
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| A Morongo Desert snail photographed near the bottom of Chino Canyon after a rainstorm | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Xanthonychidae |
| Genus: | Eremarionta |
| Species: | E. morongoana |
| Binomial name | |
| Eremarionta morongoana (S.S. Berry, 1929) | |
It is endemic to California in the Western United States.
It is known only from the Morongo Basin area of the Colorado Desert−Mojave Desert ecotone, in Riverside County and San Bernardino County.[2]