Canariella gerti Groh, 2021
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Groh, 2021; Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025; MolluscaBase eds., 2025)
Last record: "younger Quaternary age, possibly Holocene" (Groh, 2021:127)
Distribution & Habitat
Furteventura, Canary Islands, Macaronesia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Groh, Klaus. (2021). Description of a new Canariella P. Hesse, 1918 (Stylommatophora: Canariellidae) from the Quaternary of Furteventura, Canary Islands. Basteria 85(2): 126-129.
Other references:
Fernández-Palacios, José María, Fructuoso, Melania, Illera, Juan Carlos, Rando, Juan Carlos, de Nascimento, Lea, Fernández-Palacios, Enrique, Patiño, Jairo, Otto, Rüdiger, Castilla-Beltrán, Álvaro, González, Esther Martín, Orihuela-Rivero, Raúl, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Whittaker, Robert J. (2025). A synthesis of terrestrial species extinctions in the Macaronesian Islands and their correspondence with human occupancy. PNAS Nexus 4(8): pgaf215. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf215 [Supplementary data (.docx)]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Canariella gerti Groh, 2021 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php/10.1371/10.1371/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1551552 on 2025-09-12