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][3][4]
I. bendidis is named after the Thracian goddess Bendis.[2]
I. bendidis is endemic to the island of Samothrace in Greece.[1]
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.[1]
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.
Islamia bendidis is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de Hydrobiidae. De soort is endemisch op het eiland Samothrake in Griekenland.[1][2]
De wetenschappelijke naam Islamia bendidis is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1988 door Reischütz.[3]
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