Lampedusa imitatrix (common name: Maltese door-snail) is a species of small, very elongate, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Species: | L. imitatrix
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| Lampedusa imitatrix (Boettger, 1879)
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This species is endemic to Malta. The population on the islet of Filfla might be a subspecies or a species in its own right.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Schembri, P.J. (2017). "Lampedusa imitatrix". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T170833A86101909. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T170833A86101909.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
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