Leiostyla wollastoni (Paiva, 1866)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pupa wollastoni Paiva, 1866; Pupa wollastoni R. T. Lowe, 1867 [junior homonym]
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1900's
Distribution & Habitat
Madeira
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Paiva A. da Costa. (1866). Description de dix espèces nouvelles de mollusques terrestres de l'archipel de Madère. Journal de Conchyliologie 14(4): 339-343.
Other references:
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)]
Goodfriend, G. A., Cameron, R. A. D. and Cook, L. M. (1994). Fossil evidence of recent human impact on the land snail fauna of Madeira. J Biogeogr. 21: 309320.
Lowe, R. T. (1867). Description of a new Madeiran Pupa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 3. 19(110): 81-82.
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Leiostyla wollastoni (Paiva, 1866) †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1446462 on 2026-01-27
Seddon, M. B. and Killeen, I. J. (1996). A new species of the genus Leiostyla from the Madeiran Archipelago. Journal of Conchology 35(5): 445-449.