Leiostyla elegans de Frias Martins, 2023:726
Elegans chrysalis-snail, Caracol-crisálida elegante
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (de Frias Martins, 2023; Teixeira et al., 2025)
Last record: 2011 (Teixeira et al., 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
Santa Maria, Azores, Macaronesia
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
de Frias Martins, A. M. (2023). Revision of the Lauriidae Steenberg, 1925 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Pupilloidea) on the Azores Islands, with the description of seven new species. Açoreana 11(4): 673-750.
Other references:
Backhuys, W. (1975). Land and Fresh-water Molluscs of the Azores. Backhuys & Meesters, Amsterdam.
Cameron, R. A. D., Pokryszko, B. M. and de Frias Martins, A. M. (2012). Land snail faunas on Santa Maria (Azores): local diversity in an old, isolated and disturbed island. Journal of Molluscan Studies 78(3): 268-274. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eys009.
Cunha, R., Rodrigues, P. and de Frias Martins, A. M. (2010). Lista dos Moluscos. In: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.M.F., Melo, I., Parente, M., Raposeiro, P., Rodrigues, P., Santos, R.S., Silva, L., Vieira, P. and Vieira, V. (eds), A list of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores, pp. 9-33. Principia, Cascais.
de Frias Martins, A. M., Backeljau, T., Cunha, R. M. T. and Brito, C. P. (1990). Moluscos terrestres da ilha de Santa Maria. Lista preliminar. Departamento de Biologia da Universidade dos Açores, Ponta Delgada.
de Frias Martins, A. M., Henriques, D. V. and Cameron, R. A. D. (2023). The Azores endemic snails are disappearing! Whose is to blame? Açoreana 11(4): 653-672.
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Leiostyla elegans Frias Martins, 2023. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1736071 on 2026-07-29
Teixeira, D., de Frias Martins, A. M. and Allen, D. J. (2025). Leiostyla elegans. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T254576428A254576431. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T254576428A254576431.en. Accessed on 09 August 2026.