Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Madeiran Land Snail
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
Wollaston (1878) suggests it is in leaf-litter on rock ledges of
large crags. However, Coles (pers. comm.
2008) found it on rock ledges
in damp areas. Uncertain whether Wollaston (1878) recorded it from
shaded crags within laurisilva forest
, as past records
suggest the
known site at that time was wooded.[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.4 Forest - Temperate
- 6 Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks) [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Molluscs
- Class:
Gastropoda
()
- Cuvier, 1795
- Snails and Slugs
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
()
- Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
()
- J.E. Gray, 1840
- Order:
Pulmonata
()
- Cuvier, in Blainville, 1814
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
()
- (Haszprunar & Huber, 1990)
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
()
- A. Schmidt, 1855
- Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
()
- Turton, 1831
- Family:
Pupillidae
()
- Turton, 1831
- Genus:
Leiostyla
()
- Lowe, 1852
- Specific name:
cassidula
- (R.T. Lowe, 1852)
- Scientific name: - Leiostyla cassidula (R.T. Lowe, 1852)
- Specific name:
cassidula
- (R.T. Lowe, 1852)
- Genus:
Leiostyla
(
- Family:
Pupillidae
(
- Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
(
- Infraorder:
Stylommatophora
(
- Suborder:
Eupulmonata
(
- Order:
Pulmonata
(
- Superorder:
Heterobranchia
(
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
(
- Class:
Gastropoda
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Leiostyla
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in this genus:
L. abbreviata (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. cassida (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. cassidula (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. corneocostata (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. gibba (Madeiran Land Snail) · L. lamellosa (Madeiran Land Snail)
More Info
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- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
- Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2011.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 16 June 2011).
- Walden, H.W. 1983. Systematic and biogeographical studies of the terrestrial Gastropoda of Madeira. With an annotated Check-list. Annales Zoologica Fennica 20: 255-275.
- Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Wollaston, T.V. 1878 Testacea Atlantica or the land and freshwater shells of Azores, aderiras, Salvages, Canaries, Cape Verdes and Saint Helena. London; Reeve.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 30, 2012.
- Seddon, M. 2011. Leiostyla cassidula. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
Identifiers
- IUCN ID: 218457
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4752134
Footnotes
- Seddon, M. 2011. Leiostyla cassidula. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]
