Islamia bendidis

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Islamia bendidis
Status iucn3.1 CR.svg
Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
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. [1] [3] [4]

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Etymology

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

Geographic distribution

I. bendidis is endemic to the island of Samothrace in Greece. [1]

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. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Radea, K.; Triantis, K. (2011). "Islamia bendidis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011: e.T155660A4816983. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T155660A4816983.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  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. "Taxon Details: Islamia bendidis Reischutz 1988". Fauna Europaea. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  4. "Islamia bendidis Reischütz, 1988". European Environment Agency . Retrieved 7 August 2014.