Craspedaria coronula

Craspedaria coronula
	Craspedaria coronula
Conservation status
	; Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Geomitridae
Genus:	Craspedaria
Species:	C. coronula
Binomial name
	Craspedaria coronula; (Lowe, 1852)
Synonyms
	† Craspedaria (Coronaria) coronula (R. T. Lowe, 1852) · alternate representation; † Geomitra coronula (R. T. Lowe, 1852) superseded combination; † Helix coronula R. T. Lowe, 1852 (original combination);

Craspedaria coronula is a species of air-breathing land snail in the genus Geomitridae.^[2]

Craspedaria coronula is endemic to the Madeira Archipelago, and is currently only found on Deserta Grande Island. It was originally described by English malacologist Richard Thomas Lowe in 1852, from a Quaternary fossil deposit found in the southern part of Bugio Island.

It has a conical white shell, 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) in width and 3.5–4.5 mm (0.14–0.18 in) in length, with five whorls.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Teixeira, Dinarte; Silva, I; Klaus, Groh; Cameron, Robert (2018). "Geomitra coronula". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
^ Bank, R.A.; Neubert, E. (2017), Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe, MolluscaBase

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