Overview
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Critically Endangered |
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Madeiran Land Snail
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Molluscs
- Class:
Gastropoda
()
- Cuvier, 1795
- Snails and Slugs
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
()
- Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
()
- J.e. Gray, 1840
- Order:
Stylommatophora
()
- Cuvier, in Blainville, 1814
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
()
- (Haszprunar & Huber, 1990)
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
()
- A. Schmidt, 1855
- Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
()
- Turton, 1831
- Family:
Pupillidae
()
-
- Genus:
Leiostyla
()
- Specific name:
cassida
- (Lowe 1831)
- Scientific name: - Leiostyla cassida
- Specific name:
cassida
- (Lowe 1831)
- Genus:
Leiostyla
(
- Family:
Pupillidae
(
- Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
(
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
(
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
(
- Order:
Stylommatophora
(
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
(
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
(
- Class:
Gastropoda
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Leiostyla
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 36 species and subspecies in this genus:
L. abbreviata (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. anglica · L. arborea · L. callathiscus · L. cassida (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. castanea · L. cheiligona · L. cheilogona · L. concinna · L. corneocostata (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. crassilabris · L. degenerata · L. ferraria · L. filicum · L. fusca · L. fuscidula · L. gibba (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. heterodon · L. irrigua · L. laevigata · L. lamellosa (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. laurinea · L. loweana · L. millegrana · L. monticola · L. paphlagonica paphlagonica · L. pontica · L. recta · L. relevata · L. rugulosa · L. simulator · L. sphinctostoma · L. sphinctostoma rupestris · L. tesselata · L. vermiculosa · L. vincta
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Further Reading
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 26, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
- Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 26, 2007:
- European Environment Agency, EUNIS
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7138551
- IUCN ID: 11456
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4852
