Leiostyla gibba
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.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra |
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| Species: | L. gibba |
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| Leiostyla gibba (R. T. Lowe, 1852) | |
Leiostyla gibba was listed as Critically Endangered in the 1996 IUCN Red List,[2] but it is considered to be extinct.[1]
References
- 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. Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
External links
- Council of Europe. (1996). Background Information on Invertebrates of the Habitats Directive, volume 3. page 454-456.
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