Lampedusa melitensis (common name: Maltese door-snail) is a species of small, very elongate, left-handed air-breathing land snail, a sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.
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| Species: | L. melitensis
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| Lampedusa melitensis (Caruana Gatto, 1892)
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Clausilia melitensis Caruana Gatto, 1892 | |
This species is endemic to Malta and only known from a single locality on the western coastal cliffs.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Schembri, P.J.; De Mattia, W. (2017). "Lampedusa melitensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T11205A86101777. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T11205A86101777.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
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