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Borrego Desertsnail

Sonorelix borregoensis

Field notes

Sonorelix borregoensis, also known as the Borrego desertsnail, is a species of terrestrial snail.

This species was originally described, as Micrarionta borregoensis, by S. Stillman Berry in 1929, from a specimen collected in Palm Canyon, in what is now Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, California, United States. Berry reclassified it in the new genus Sonorelix in 1943.

Subspecies

Sonorelix borregoensis borregoensis (S. S. Berry, 1929)

Sonorelix borregoensis ora (Willett, 1929)

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided