Lampedusa melitensis

Lampedusa melitensis (common name: Maltese door-snail) is a species of small, very elongate, left-handed air-breathing land snail, a sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

Lampedusa melitensis

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Clausilioidea
Family:
Clausiliidae
Genus:
Lampedusa
Species:
L. melitensis
Binomial name
Lampedusa melitensis
(Caruana Gatto, 1892)
Synonyms

Clausilia melitensis Caruana Gatto, 1892

This species is endemic to Malta and only known from a single locality on the western coastal cliffs.[1]

References
  1. Schembri, P.J. (201). "Lampedusa melitensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2012: e.T11205A15000080. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T11205A15000080.en.


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