Emerald green snail
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The emerald green snail, green tree snail, or manus green tree snail, scientific name Papustyla pulcherrima, sometimes listed as Papuina pulcherrima, is a species of large air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae
Camaenidae
Camaenidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.This is one of the most diverse families in the clade Stylommatophora....

. Their attractive green shells are popular as jewellery. This has led to a decline in its population due to overharvesting.
This species is endemic to Manus Island
Manus Island
Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest island of the Admiralty Islands. It is the fifth largest island in Papua New Guinea with an area of 2,100 km², measuring around 100 km × 30 km. According to the 2000 census, Manus Island had a...

 in Papua New Guinea. It lives in trees. It inhabits area up to 112 meters above sea level.

This snail and its shell are protected under CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) and it is listed in the IUCN Red List.

Papustyla pulcherrima is the only foreign gastropod species listed as Federally endangered in the United States since 2 June 1970.
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