Biology:Islamia trichoniana

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Islamia trichoniana
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Islamia
Species:
I. trichoniana
Binomial name
Islamia trichoniana
Radoman, 1979

Islamia trichoniana is a species of small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Hydrobiidae.[1][2][3]

Geographic distribution

I. trichoniana is endemic to Greece, where it is restricted to Lake Trichonida, an ancient, deep, oligotrophic lake[4] in the south Adriatic-Ionian region of the country.[1]

Conservation status

This species is currently classified by the IUCN as critically endangered and possibly extinct. While it was once found throughout Lake Trichonida, it is currently known from only one location on the northeast shore of the lake. It is threatened by habitat destruction, as intensive agricultural practices in the neighbouring area lead to water pollution and eutrophication of the lake and the excessive abstraction of water for irrigation purposes causes a drop in water level.[1][5][6]

See also

  • List of non-marine molluscs of Greece

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Hauffe, T.; Albrecht, C.; Schreiber, K. (2011). "Islamia trichoniana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T155523A4792366. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T155523A4792366.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/155523/4792366. Retrieved 11 November 2021. 
  2. "Taxon Details: Islamia trichoniana Radoman, 1979". Fauna Europaea. http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=427811. 
  3. "Islamia trichoniana Radoman, 1979". European Environment Agency. http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species/285771. 
  4. Albrecht, C.; Hauffe, T.; Schreiber, K.; Trajanovski, S.; Wilke, T. (2009). "Mollusc Biodiversity and Endemism in the Potential Ancient Lake Trichonis, Greece". Malacologia 51 (2): 357–375. doi:10.4002/040.051.0209. 
  5. Albrecht, C.; Lohfink, D.; Schultheiß, R. (2006). Cowie, R.. ed. "Dramatic decline and loss of mollusc diversity in long-lived lakes in Greece". Tentacle (University of Hawaii) 14: 11–13. http://www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/tentacle/tentacle_14.pdf. 
  6. Reischütz, A.; Reischütz, P. L. (2003). "Helleniká pantoía, 5: Zur Kentniss der Molluskenfauna des Limni Trichonida und des Limni Lisimachia (Aitolien/Akarnanien, Griechenland)" (in de). Nachrichtenblatt der Ersten Malakologischen Gesellschaft Vorarlbergs (Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum) 11: 28–30. http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/NachErstMalaGes_11_0028-0030.pdf. 

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