Albinaria sphakiota is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.[3] The species is endemic to Crete.[1]

Albinaria sphakiota
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Genus: Albinaria
Species:
A. sphakiota
Binomial name
Albinaria sphakiota
(Maltzan, 1887)[2]
Synonyms
  • Clausilia sphakiota
  • Albinaria porphyrostoma

Distribution

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This species occurs in Greece. It is known from steep gorges in Sfakia, western Crete: Imbros Gorge, Aradena Gorge and Asfendou Gorge.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Triantis, K. (2017)."Albinaria sphakiota".. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  2. ^ Maltzan, H. von 1887. Neue kretenser Landschnecken. - Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 14: 117-119. Frankfurt am Main.
  3. ^ "Taxonomy Browser". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. US: National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  4. ^ Kittel, K., Hirschfelder, H. J. 2018. The Genus Albinaria VEST 1867 in Crete. Acta Conchyliorum. Volume: 17. Club Conchylia. Öhringen, Germany.