Craspedaria coronula
Craspedaria coronula is a species of air-breathing land snail in the genus Geomitridae.[2]
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Genus: | Craspedaria |
Species: | C. coronula |
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Craspedaria coronula is endemic to the Madeira Archipelago, and is currently only found on Deserta Grande Island. 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
- Teixeira, Dinarte; Silva, I; Klaus, Groh; Cameron, Robert (2018). "Geomitra coronula". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
- Bank, R.A.; Neubert, E. (2017), Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe, MolluscaBase
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