Islamia hadei

Islamia hadei 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]

Islamia hadei
Conservation status
Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Genus:	Islamia
Species:	I. hadei
Binomial name
Islamia hadei (Gittenberger, 1982)
Synonyms[1][2]
Daphniola hadei (Gittenberger, 1982) Hauffenia hadei (Gittenberger, 1982) Horatia hadei Gittenberger, 1982

Taxonomic note

Fauna Europaea recognises two subspecies : Islamia hadei subsp. hadei (E. Gittenberger 1982) and Islamia hadei subsp. molai (A. Reischutz & P.L. Reischutz 2008).^[2]

Geographic distribution

Islamia hadei is endemic to Greece, where it where it is only known from a small spring 5 km southwest of Githion.^[1]

Conservation status

This species is currently classified by the IUCN as critically endangered and possibly extinct. The spring it was originally recorded from is being used to provide water for domestic purposes and recent surveys have failed to find any specimens; however, it may still survive in groundwater or a small remnant of the spring.^[1]

See also

• List of non-marine molluscs of Greece