Discula lyelliana
Species of gastropod
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Discula lyelliana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Geomitridae.
| Discula lyelliana | |
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| Discula lyelliana shells, from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Geomitridae |
| Genus: | Discula |
| Species: | D. lyelliana |
| Binomial name | |
| Discula lyelliana (R. T. Lowe, 1852) | |
Discula lyelliana was listed as critically endangered possibly extinct in the 2011 IUCN Red List,[1] before it was rediscovered, and is now part of a breeding and reintroduction programme.[2]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Deserta Grande Island, Madeira.[1]
