Discula tetrica

Discula tetrica
Discula tetrica
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. tetrica
Binomial name
Discula tetrica
(R. T. Lowe, 1862)

Discula tetrica is an extinct species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.

This species was endemic to Bugio, Madeira, Portugal.

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

References

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Discula tetrica. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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