Endangered
Lampadia webbiana
Lampadia webbiana
Lampadia webbiana is a land snail in the family Helicidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Endangered.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Madeira archipelago, Portugal. This snail has only been found on Porto Santo Island and the nearby islet Ilhéu de Cima, but this population has not been refound and may be extirpated. On Porto Santo it is known only from three hills on the eastern side of the island, where it lives under rocks in grassy areas.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Land snails rasp plants and detritus with a radula and seal the shell in dry weather. Introduced predators and habitat clearing hit them hard.
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
This species is threatened by introduced rodent predators, and possibly by degradation of its grassland habitat related to increasing tourism activity.
Lampadia webbiana is 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 Lampadia webbiana, Wikidata item Q4847473. 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.
