Leiostyla abbreviata

Leiostyla abbreviata
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Lauriidae
Genus: Leiostyla
Species: L. abbreviata
Binomial name
Leiostyla abbreviata
(R. T. Lowe, 1852)

Leiostyla abbreviata is an extinct species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lauriidae. It is one of several species sometimes referred as Madeiran land snail.

It is mentioned in annexes II and IV of Habitats Directive.

Leiostyla abbreviata was listed as Critically endangered in the 1996 IUCN Red List,[2] but it is considered to be extinct.[1]

Distribution

This species was endemic to Madeira, Portugal.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Fontaine B., Bouchet P., Van Achterberg K., Alonso-Zarazaga M. A., Araujo R. et al. (2007). "The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus." Biological Conservation 139: 167-185. Table 2 on the page 173. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.012. PDF.
  2. Seddon M. B. (1996). Leiostyla abbreviata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.