Discula lyelliana | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Hygromiidae |
Genus: | Discula |
Species: | D. lyelliana |
Binomial name | |
Discula lyelliana (R. T. Lowe, 1852) |
Discula lyelliana is an extinct species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.
Discula lyelliana was listed as Critically endangered in the 1996 IUCN Red List,[2] but it is considered to be extinct.[1]
This species was endemic to Deserta Grande Island, Madeira.[1]