Lampedusa melitensis

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Schembri, P.J. |author2=De Mattia, W. |date=2017 |title=Lampedusa melitensis |volume=2017 |page=e.T11205A86101777 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T11205A86101777.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}

| taxon = Lampedusa melitensis

| authority = (Caruana Gatto, 1892)

| synonyms = Clausilia melitensis Caruana Gatto, 1892

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Lampedusa melitensis (common name: Maltese door-snail) is a species of small, very elongate, left-handed air-breathing land snail, a sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium.

This species is endemic to Malta and only known from a single locality on the western coastal cliffs.

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