| Lampedusa melitensis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Genus: | Lampedusa |
| Species: | L. melitensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Lampedusa melitensis (Caruana Gatto, 1892) | |
| Synonyms | |
Clausilia melitensisCaruana 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]
