Islamia bendidis

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Islamia bendidis

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

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

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