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Leiostyla gibba Lowe, 1852

Madeiran land snail (generic)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Pupa (Alvearella) gibba Lowe, 1852

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1878

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

Distribution

Madeira, Portugal

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Lowe, R. T. (1852). Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, second series, 9(50): 112-120, 275-279.

 

Other references:

Cook, L. M., Goodfriend, G. A. and Cameron, R. A. D. (1993). Changes in the land snail fauna of eastern Madeira during the Quaternary. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London series B 339(1287): 83-103.

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.

Fontaine, B., Bouchet, P., Van Achterberg, K., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Araujo, R., Asche, M., Aspöck, U. Audisio, P., Aukema, B., Bailly, N., Balsamo, M., Bank, R.A., Barnard, P., Belfiore, C., Bogdanowicz, W., Bongers, T., Boxshall, G., Burckhardt, D., Camicas, J.-L., Chylarecki, P., Crucitti, P., Deharveng,L., Dubois, A., Enghoff, H., Faubel, A., Fochetti, R., Gargominy, O., Gibson, D., Gibson, R., Soledad Gómez López, M., Goujet, D., Harvey, M.S., Heller, K.-G., Van Helsdingen, P., Hoch, H., De Jong, H., De Jong, Y., Karsholt, O., Los, W., Lundqvist, L., Magowski, W., Manconi, R., Martens, J. Massard, J.A., Massard-Geimer, G., Mcinnes, S.J., Mendes, L.F., Mey, E., Michelsen, V., Minelli, A., Nielsen, C., Nieto Nafría, J.M., Van Nieukerken, E.J., Noyes, J., Pape, T., Pohl, H., De Prins, W., Ramos, M., Ricci, C., Roselaar, C., Rota, E., Schmidt-Rhaesa, A., Segers, H., Zur Strassen, R., Szeptycki, A., Thibaud, J.-M., Thomas, A., Timm, T., Van Tol, J., Vervoort, W. and Willmann, R. (2007). The European Union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus. Biological Conservation 139(1-2): 167-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012

Seddon, M. B. (2008). The Landsnails of Madeira. An illustrated compendium of the landsnails and slugs of the Madeiran archipelago.

Seddon, M. B. (2011). Leiostyla gibba. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T11458A3279526. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T11458A3279526.en. Downloaded on 15 May 2018.

Wollaston, T. V. (1878). Testacea Atlantica or the land and freshwater shells of Azores, aderiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes and Saint Helena. London; Reeve.

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