Craspedaria delphinula (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025; MolluscaBase eds., 2025)
Last record: 1620 (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
Madeira, Madeiran Archipelago, Macaronesia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lowe, R. T. (1831). Primitiae faunae et florae Maderae et Portus Sancti; sive species quaedam novae vel hactenus minus rite cognitae animalium et plantarum in his insulis degentium breviter descriptae. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 4 (1): 1-70, pl. 1-6.
Other references:
Bank, R. A., Groh, Klaus and Ripken, Th. E. J. (2002). Catalogue and bibliography of the non-marine Mollusca of Macaronesia. In: Falkner, M., Groh, K. & Speight, M.C.D. (eds.). Collectanea Malacologica. Festschrift für Gerhard Falkner. 89-235, pl. 14-26. [20 September]. München / Hackenheim (Friedrich-Held-Gesellschaft / ConchBooks).
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)]
Goodfriend, Glenn A., Cameron, R. A. D. and Cook, L. M. (1994). Fossil evidence of recent human impact on the land snail fauna of Madeira. Journal of Biogeography 21(3): 309320. https://doi.org/10.2307/2845532
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Craspedaria delphinula (R. T. Lowe, 1831) †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1442130 on 2025-09-22