Discula cameroni Pokryszko, Groh & Teixeira, 2019
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: fossil
Since rediscovered as a living population (Cameron et al., 2021)
"First detected as fossils on Deserta Grande (Teixeira et al., 2019) and subsequently living at the southern end of Deserta Grande (Planalto Sul and Rocha do Amarelo, leg. D.T., IFCN 2020), and at the northern end of Bugio (leg. & coll. I.S.) (Teixeira et al., in prep.)."
(Cameron et al., 2021:65)
Distribution
Bugio & Deserta Grande, Desertas Islands, Madeiran Archipelago
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Teixeira, Dinarte, Pokryszko, B. M., Cameron, Robert A. D., Silva, Isamberto and Groh, Klaus. (2019). Taxonomic revision of the late-Pleistocene/Holocene land-mollusc fauna (Gastropoda: 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
Other references:
Cameron, Robert A. D., Teixeira, Dinarte, Pokryszko, Beata, Silva, Isamberto and Groh, Klaus. (2021). An annotated checklist of the extant and Quaternary land molluscs of the Desertas Islands, Madeiran Archipelago. Journal of Conchology 44(1): 53-70.