Leptaxis groviana antiqua Cameron & Teixeira, 2019
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 8.7-42.3 ka (Teixeira et al., 2019:153)
Distribution & Habitat
Deserta Grande, Desertas Islands, Madeiran Archipelago
Anatomy & Morphology
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:
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. Leptaxis groviana antiqua Cameron & Teixeira, 2019 †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1394834 on 2026-01-17