Islamia bendidis explained

Islamia bendidis 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]}

Etymology

I. bendidis is named after the Thracian goddess Bendis.^[3]

Geographic distribution

I. bendidis is endemic to the island of Samothrace in Greece.

Conservation status

This species is currently classified by the IUCN as critically endangered and possibly extinct. At the time of its original description it was already considered highly threatened, as the freshwater springs and streams that constitute its habitat are being exploited to provide water for domestic purposes, and recent surveys have failed to find any specimens at any of the five locations it was known from.

See also

• List of non-marine molluscs of Greece

Notes and References

1. Web site: Taxon Details: Islamia bendidis Reischutz 1988. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924144241/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=427783. dead. September 24, 2015. Fauna Europaea. 7 August 2014.
2. Web site: Islamia bendidis Reischütz, 1988 . European Environment Agency. 7 August 2014.
3. Reischütz, P. L.. 1988. Beiträge zur Molluskenfauna Thrakiens und Ostmakedoniens, II. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 90. B. 341–356. Naturhistorisches Museum. de.