- Discula lyelliana
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Discula lyelliana Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group SigmurethraSuperfamily: 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]
Distribustion
This species was endemic to Deserta Grande Island, Madeira.[1]
References
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Discula lyelliana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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