Omphalotropis margarita (Pfeiffer, 1851)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Cyclostoma margarita Pfeiffer, 1851
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: early 1900's
Distribution
Gambier Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pfeiffer, L. (1851). Descriptions of forty-three new species of Cyclostomacea, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851: 242-251.
Other references:
Bouchet, Philippe 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.
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.
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