Leiostyla gibba
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | L. gibba
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| Leiostyla gibba (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
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Leiostyla gibba is an extinct species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lauriidae. This species is mentioned in Annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive. It is one of several species sometimes referred as Madeiran land snail.
Leiostyla gibba was listed as Critically Endangered in the 1996 IUCN Red List,[2] but it is considered to be extinct.[1]
Distribution
This species was endemic to Madeira, Portugal.
References
- ^ a b Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation 139: 167-185. Table 2 on the page 173. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
- ^ Seddon M. B. (1996). Leiostyla gibba. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
External links
- Council of Europe. (1996). Background Information on Invertebrates of the Habitats Directive, volume 3. page 454-456.