Leiostyla corneocostata
Encyclopedia
Leiostyla corneocostata is a species
of air-breathing land snail
, a terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pupillidae
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It is mentioned in annexes II and IV of Habitats Directive.
It is sometimes referred as the Madeiran land snail.
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
of air-breathing land snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
, a terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pupillidae
Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Stylommatophora....
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Distribution
This species is endemic to PortugalPortugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
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It is mentioned in annexes II and IV of Habitats Directive.
It is sometimes referred as the Madeiran land snail.
Source
- Seddon, M.B. 1996. Leiostyla corneocostata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.