Lampedusa melitensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
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(unranked): | clade
Heterobranchia
clade
Euthyneura |
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Species: | L. melitensis
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Binomial name | |
Lampedusa melitensis (Caruana Gatto, 1892)
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Synonyms | |
Clausilia melitensis Caruana Gatto, 1892 |
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.
This species is endemic to Malta and only known from a single locality on the western coastal cliffs. [1]
Lampedusa melitensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
(unranked): | clade
Heterobranchia
clade
Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | |
Family: | |
Genus: | |
Species: | L. melitensis
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Binomial name | |
Lampedusa melitensis (Caruana Gatto, 1892)
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Synonyms | |
Clausilia melitensis Caruana Gatto, 1892 |
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.
This species is endemic to Malta and only known from a single locality on the western coastal cliffs. [1]