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Cryptella tamaranensis (Hutterer, 1990)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Parmacella tamaranensis Hutterer, 1990

 

Conservation Status

Missing (possibly extinct) (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017)

Last record: 1887

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

 

"The valley of Jinamar is now highly cultivated and the species may have got extinct since then."

(Régnier et al., 2009:S1-S2)

 

Distribution

Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, North Africa

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Hutterer, Rainer. (1990). Recent and fossil slugs of the genus Parmacella in the Canary Islands, with descriptions of three new species (Pulmonata: Parmacellidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 120: 73-93.

 

Other references:

Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.

Groh, K. (2017). Cryptella tamaranensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T177778A1497735. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T177778A1497735.en. Downloaded on 27 January 2018.

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Cryptella tamaranensis (Hutterer, 1990). Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1165166 on 2022-03-26

Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.

 

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