Iglica soussensis

Appearance

Shell is high-spired and turriform, with enlarged sutures, elliptic aperture disjunct with simple peristome. Shell is 2.1 mm tall, 0.4 mm wide, 0.4 mm in aperture height, and 0.16 mm in aperture width.

I. Soussensis is only known from the type locality, a well in the Ait Msia village in the area of Agadir, or described by the IUCN as 'a well at Tamait Izder south of the Souss River north of Temsia, Morocco'.

Range and habitat

Iglica soussensis is a aquatic subterranean gastropod endemic to wells in the Souss Plain, Morocco. This species is a stygobiont, being restricted to aquatic subterranean habitats.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet

Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.

In crisis

Iglica soussensis is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Iglica soussensis, Wikidata item Q65117598. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.