Cyclomorpha secessa Bouchet & Abdou, 2003
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: before 1934
All known shells of this species were collected after the individuals inside them had died (1934). Thus, there are no recorded encounters with living specimens of this species (Bouchet & Abdou, 2003).
Distribution
Akamaru, Gambier Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: BPBM 264012
Type locality: "Akamaru, Gambier Is"
Paratype: BPBM 138841
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bouchet, Phiippe, and, Abdou, Ahmed. (2003). Endemic land snails from the Pacific Islands and the museum record: documenting and dating the extinction of the terrestrial Assimineidae of the Gambier Islands. J. Moll. Stud. 69: 165-170.
Other references:
Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.