Lampedusa imitatrix

Lampedusa imitatrix
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Clausilioidea
Family:
Clausiliidae
Genus:
Lampedusa
Species:
L. imitatrix
Binomial name
Lampedusa imitatrix
(Boettger, 1879)

Lampedusa imitatrix (common name: Maltese door-snail) is a species of small, very elongate, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

This species is endemic to Malta. The population on the islet of Filfla might be a subspecies or a species in its own right.

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