Bythinella mauritanica Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1887
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Only ever collected on a single occasion from a Roman temple bath in 1887. Surveys in the 1970's failed to rediscover the species and it is most likely extinct (Van Damme & Ghamizi, 2010).
Distribution
Djebel Zaghouan, Tunisia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Letourneux, A. and Bourguignat, J. (1887). Prodrome de la malacologie terrestre et fluviatile de la Tunisie. Paris.
Other references:
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.
Van Damme, D. and Ghamizi, M. (2010). Bythinella mauritanica. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 07 October 2012.
Van Damme, D. & Ghamizi, M. 2010. Bythinella mauritanica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T184511A8283903. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T184511A8283903.en. Accessed on 01 July 2022.
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