Biodiversity of Cyprus by NGO Protection of the Natural Heritage and the Biodiversity of Cyprus

The rich and rare biodiversity in Cyprus. The Cyprus biodiversity includes 1908 plants, 780 seashells, 250 fishes, more than 7.000 insects, 410 birds including migratory, 31 mammals, 9 snakes, 11 lizards,three amphibians, 120 land snails, fungi estimated 5-8 thousandand and three turtles.These numbers continually increase as a result of researc. Also see All about Cyprus. From George Konstantinou. Email - fanigeorge@hotmail.com - Το υλικό της ιστοσελίδας αποτελεί πνευματική ιδιοκτησία.

Monday 7 September 2015

Potamides conicus (Blainville, 1829) - Cyprus

Family Potamididae

Is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae
This species occurs patchily along coastal habitats in the eastern and southern Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, as well as in Libya, Sardinia and Malta. In Egypt, it is found inland in saline lakes such as Birket Gessebaya, Birket Maragi, Lake Qarun and the Bitter Lakes (Taraschewski and Paperna 1981).

.Photos Akrotiri 5/9/2015 by George Konstantinou