Craspedaria coronula

Craspedaria coronula
Craspedaria coronula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Family:
Geomitridae
Genus:
Craspedaria
Species:
C. coronula
Binomial name
Craspedaria coronula
(Lowe, 1852)
Synonyms
  • † Craspedaria (Coronaria) coronula (R. T. Lowe, 1852) · alternate representation
  • † Geomitra coronula (R. T. Lowe, 1852) superseded combination
  • † Helix coronula R. T. Lowe, 1852 (original combination)

Craspedaria coronula is a species of air-breathing land snail in the genus Geomitridae.[2]

Craspedaria coronula is endemic to the Madeira Archipelago, and is currently only found on the Desertas Islands. It was originally described by English malacologist Richard Thomas Lowe in 1852, from a Quaternary fossil deposit found in the southern part of Bugio Island.

It has a conical white shell, 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) in width and 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) in length, with five whorls.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Teixeira, Dinarte; Silva, I; Klaus, Groh; Cameron, Robert (2018). "Geomitra coronula". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
  2. ^ Bank, R.A.; Neubert, E. (2017), Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe, MolluscaBase


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