Leiostyla corneocostata: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Lauriidae
- Genus
- Leiostyla
- Species
- Leiostyla corneocostata
- Scientific Name
- Leiostyla corneocostata
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Leiostyla corneocostata
Leiostyla corneocostata is a species of land snail in the family Lauriidae known commonly as the Madeiran land snail. It is endemic to Porto Santo Island in the Madeira archipelago.
This species is limited to a range of about 6 square kilometers on a single island. It lives in coastal habitat in the sea spray zone where it lives in rock cracks and under vegetation. The population is likely stable, but the species is threatened by development of the beach areas near its habitat.
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Sibling Taxa
- Leiostyla abbreviata
- Leiostyla anglica
- Leiostyla arborea
- Leiostyla beatae
- Leiostyla calathiscus
- Leiostyla cassida
- Leiostyla cassidula
- Leiostyla castanea
- Leiostyla cheilogona
- Leiostyla colvillei
- Leiostyla concinna
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- Leiostyla filicum
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- Leiostyla fuscidula
- Leiostyla gibba
- Leiostyla heterodon
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- Leiostyla irrigua
- Leiostyla lamellosa
- Leiostyla laurinea
- Leiostyla loweana
- Leiostyla macilenta
- Leiostyla millegrana
- Leiostyla monticola
- Leiostyla recta
- Leiostyla relevata
- Leiostyla rugulosa
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- Leiostyla taeniata
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