Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Clausilioidea Genus Lampedusa Higher classification Lampedusa | Phylum Mollusca Family Clausiliidae Scientific name Lampedusa melitensis Rank Species | |
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Lampedusa melitensis (common name: Maltese door-snail) is a species of small, very elongate, left-handed air-breathing land snail, a sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.
This species is endemic to Malta and only known from a single locality on the western coastal cliffs.
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