Geomitra delphinuloides

Geomitra delphinuloides is an extinct species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Geomitra delphinuloides
Conservation status
Extinct[1]
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:	Geomitridae
Genus:	Geomitra
Species:	G. delphinuloides
Binomial name
Geomitra delphinuloides (R. T. Lowe, 1860)

Geomitra delphinuloides 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.[1]

References

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). Geomitra delphinuloides. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 7 August 2007.