Leiostyla castanheiraensis Groh & Pokryszko, 2019
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 46.1-49.2 ka ago (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
Deserta Grande, Desertas Islands, Madeira
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.
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. (2026). MolluscaBase. Leiostyla castanheiraensis Groh & Pokryszko, 2019 †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1394670 on 2026-02-01