Eupaludestrina achaja ssp. sorella

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Heleobia achaja ssp. sorella (Westerlund)

family: Cochliopidae

a freshwater snail from the Balkan region; almost for sure extinct now

source:

C. Régnier; B. Fontaine; P. Bouchet: Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214–1221. 2009

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Nov 30, 2013 16:49:25 GMT @noisi said:

source:

C. Régnier; B. Fontaine; P. Bouchet: Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214–1221. 2009

Available online: faculty.umb.edu/anamarija.frankic/eeos476/Class%20Materials/Habitats/mollusk%20extinction%20article.pdf

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According to Schütt (1980), the Spring at Velestino, once a locality of Heleobia (Semisalsa) achaja sorella (Westerlund, 1879), dried out in the 1990s due to deep wells drilled to supply the nearby cotton fields with water.

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