Leiostyla lamellosa

Leiostyla lamellosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Lauriidae
Genus: Leiostyla
Species: L. lamellosa
Binomial name
Leiostyla lamellosa
(R. T. Lowe, 1852)

Leiostyla lamellosa 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.

Distribution

This species was endemic to Madeira, Portugal.

References

  1. Seddon, M.B. 1996. Leiostyla lamellosa. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 9 April 2009.
  2. 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.


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