Caseolus pittae (Paiva, 1866)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Helix pittae Paiva, 1866
Conservation Status
Missing (Teixeira et al., 2025)
Last record: 1866-1867 (Teixeira et al., 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
Desertas Islands, Madeiran Archipelago, Macaronesia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Paiva, António da Costa. (1866). Description de dix espèces nouvelles de Mollusques terrestres de l‘archipel de Madère. Journal de Conchologie, Paris 14(4): 339-343, plate 11.
Other references:
Bank, R. A., Groh, K. and Ripken, T. E. (2002). Catalogue and Bibliography of the non-marine Mollusca of Macronesia. In: M. Falkner, K. Grah and M.C.D. Speight (eds), Collecteana Malacologica, pp. 89-235.
Cameron, R. A. D. and Cook, L. M. (1999). Land snail faunas of the Deserta Islands, Madeiran archipelago, past and present. Journal of Conchology, London 36: 1-15.
Cameron, R. A. D, Teixeira, D., Pokryszko, B., Silva, I. and Groh, K. (2021). An annotated checklist to the extant and quaternary land molluscs of the Desertas islands, Madeiran archipelago. Journal of Conchology 44(1): 53-70.
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Caseolus pittae (Paiva, 1866). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1051084 on 2026-07-27
Paiva, António da Costa. (1867). Monographia Molluscorum terrestrium fluvialium, lacustrium insularum Maderensium. Memorias da Academia Real de Lisboa, Cl. Sci. math. phys. nat. 4(1): 1-168 pl. 1-2.
Teixeira, D., Cameron, R., Groh, K. and Silva, I. (2025). Caseolus pittae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T214253576A214253606. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T214253576A214253606.en. Accessed on 08 August 2026.
Teixeira, D., Groh, K., Yanes, Y., Pokryszko, B., Silva, I. and Cameron, R. A. D. (2022). Late Quaternary land snail faunas of the Desertas Islands (Madeira): high diversity and endemism followed by recent impoverishment and extinction. Journal of Molluscan Studies 88: 1-8.
Teixeira, D., Pokryszko, B., Cameron, R. A. D., Silva, I. and Groh, K. (2019). Taxonomic revision of the late-Pleistocene/Holocene land-mollusc fauna (Gastropoa: Eupulmonata) of the Desertas Islands, Madeiran Archipelago, with the description of 6 new species and 2 new subspecies. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 148(2): 137-159. https://doi.org/10.1127/arch.moll/148/137-159
Wollaston, T. V. (1878). Testacea Atlantica or the land and freshwater shells of Azores, Madeiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes, and Saint Helena. L. Reeve & Company, London.