Alzoniella galaica Boeters & Rolan, 1988
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Belgrandiella galaica Boeters & Rolan, 1988
Conservation Status
Missing (Arconada, 2011a,b; Seddon, 2026)
Last record: 1998 (Seddon, 2026)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
Folgoso do Courel, Provincia de Lugo, Spain
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Boeters, H. D. and Rolán, E. (1988). Unknown West European Prosobranchs, 9. Some new Spanish fresh water prosobranchs. Basteria 52: 197-202.
Other references:
Arconada in Verdú, J. and Galante, E. (2009). Atlas de los Invertebrados Amenazados de España (Especes en peligro critico y en peligro). Direccion General para la Biodiversidad, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Madrid.
Arconada, B. (2011a). Alzoniella galaica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 January 2012.
Arconada, B. (2011b). Alzoniella galaica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T155645A4813388. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T155645A4813388.en. Accessed on 08 July 2022.
Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.
Cuttelod, A., Seddon, M. and Neubert, E. (2011). European Red List of Non-marine Molluscs. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
Glöer, P. (2022). The Freshwater Gastropods of the West-Palearctis. Identification key, Anatomy, Ecology, Distribution. III. Hydrobiidae. Self-published, Neustadt/Holstein.
Rolán, E. and Boeters, H. D. (2015). The genus Alzoniella Giusti & Bodon, 1984 (Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) in Asturias (northern Spain), with the description of a new species. Basteria 79(1-3): 48-54.
Seddon, M. B. (2026). Alzoniella galaica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2026: e.T155645A222455015. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2026-1.RLTS.T155645A222455015.en. Accessed on 09 August 2026.
Verdú, J. R., Numa C. and Galante, E. (2006). Libro Rojo de los Invertebrados de España. Dirección General para la Biodiversidad. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Madrid.
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