Islamia bendidis

Islamia bendidis

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Islamiinae
Genus: Islamia
Species: I. bendidis
Binomial name
Islamia bendidis
Reischütz, 1988[2]

Islamia bendidis is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.[3][4][5]

Etymology

I. bendidis is named after the Thracian goddess Bendis.[2]

Geographic distribution

I. bendidis is endemic to the island of Samothrace in Greece.[3]

Conservation status

This species is currently classified by the IUCN as critically endangered and possibly extinct. At the time of its original description it was already considered highly threatened, as the freshwater springs and streams that constitute its habitat are being exploited to provide water for domestic purposes, and recent surveys have failed to find any specimens at any of the five locations it was known from.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Radea, K. & Triantis, K. (2011). "Islamia bendidis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2011: e.T155660A4816983. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T155660A4816983.en. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 Reischütz, P. L. (1988). "Beiträge zur Molluskenfauna Thrakiens und Ostmakedoniens, II" (PDF). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (in German). Naturhistorisches Museum. 90 (B): 341–356.
  3. 1 2 3 Radea, K. & Triantis, K. (2013). "Islamia bendidis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Taxon Details: Islamia bendidis Reischutz 1988". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Islamia bendidis Reischütz, 1988". European Environment Agency. Retrieved 7 August 2014.


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