Hemicycla sp. nov. 'Gran Canaria'
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (Castillo et al., 2008; Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)
Last record: 42.5-37.8 Ka BP (Castillo et al., 2008)
Distribution & Habitat
Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Macaronesia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Castillo, C. et al. (2008). Los gasterópodos terrestres del Cuaternario Superior de Gran Canaria (Islas Canarias) [Land gastropods of the Upper Quaternary in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands)]. Geotemas 10: 1253-1256.
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)]