Geomitra coronula (R.T. Lowe, 1852)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Helix coronula R. T. Lowe, 1852; Craspedaria coronula (R. T. Lowe, 1852)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered twice. Once as a living population (species description was based upon fossils) in the late mid-1800's (Paiva, 1867; Teixeira et al., 2018) and then again in 2013 (Teixeira et al., 2017, 2018).
Distribution
Bugio (subfossil only) & Deserta Grande, Madeira Archipelago
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lowe, R. T. (1852). Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 9(50): 112-120.
Other references:
Borges, P. A. V. et al. (eds.). (2008). Listagem dos fungos, flora e fauna terrestres dos arquipélagos da Madeira e Selvagens. Governo da Madeira, Funchal.
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, 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.
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. Geomitra coronula (R. T. Lowe, 1852). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1042173 on 2025-09-12
Neubert, E., Seddon, M.B., Allen, D.J., Arrébola, J., Backeljau, T., Balashov, I., Bank, R., Cameron, R., de Frias Martins, A.M., De Mattia, W., Dedov, I., Duda, M., Falkner, G., Falkner, M., Fehér, Z., Gargominy, O., Georgiev, D., Giusti, F., Gómez Moliner, B.J., Groh, K., Ibáñez, M., Kappes, H., Manganelli, G., Martínez-Ortí, A., Nardi, G., Neiber, M.T., Páll-Gergely, B., Parmakelis, A., Prié, V., Reischütz, A., Reischütz, P.L., Rowson, B., Rüetschi, J., Slapnik, R., Son, M., Štamol, V., Teixeira, D., Triantis, K., Vardinoyannis, K., von Proschwitz, T. and Walther, F. (2019). European Red List of Terrestrial Molluscs. IUCN: Cambridge, UK and Brussels, Belgium.
Nobre, A. (1931). Moluscos terrestres, fluviais e das águas salobras do arquipélago da Madeira. Barcelos, Porto.
Paiva, C. de. (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.
Seddon, M. B. (2008). The landsnails of Madeira. The illustrated compendium of the landsnails and slugs of the Madeiran archipelago. Biotir Reports [Studies in biodiversity and systematics of terrestrial organisms], 2: i-viii, 1-196.
Teixeira, D., Cameron, R.A.D. and Silva. I. (2017). LIFE Recover Natura Mid-Term Report - Moluscos Terrestres. IFCN, Funchal.
Teixeira, D., Silva, I., Cameron, R. & Groh, K. (2018). Geomitra coronula. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T121001523A121001604. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T121001523A121001604.en. Downloaded on 28 May 2021.
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.