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Caldwellia philyrina was an extinct species of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails. This species was endemic to Mauritius.

Caldwellia philyrina
Conservation status
Extinct (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura

clade Panpulmonata

clade Eupulmonata

clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra

clade limacoid clade

Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Euconulidae
Genus: Caldwellia
Species: C. philyrina
Binomial name
Caldwellia philyrina

Morelet, 1851

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