Omphalotropis plicosa Pfeiffer, 1852
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1878 (Griffiths, 1996)
Rediscovered in August 2002 (Florens & Balder, 2007)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Mauritius
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Baxter-Gilbert, James et al. (2020). Toad-kill: prey diversity and preference of invasive guttural toads (Scelophrys gutturalis) in Mauritius. Afr. J. Ecol. 59: 168-177. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12814
Carlton, James T. (2023). Marine Invertebrate Neoextinctions: An Update and Call for Inventories of Globally Missing Species. Diversity 15(6): 782. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15060782
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.
Florens, F. B. V. and Balder, C. (2007). Relocation of Omphalotropis plicosa (Pfeiffer, 1852), a Mauritian endemic landsnail believed extinct. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73: 205-206.
Griffiths, O. (1996). Omphalotropis plicosa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T15297A4511585. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T15297A4511585.en. Downloaded on 19 March 2017.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Kemp, R., Peters, H., Allcock, L., Carpenter, K., Obura, D., Polidoro, B., Richman, N. (2012). Marine invertebrate life, pp. 34-44. In: Collen, B., Bohm, M., Kemp, R. and Bailie, J. E. M. (eds.). Spineless. Status and Trends of the World’s Invertebrates. London, UK: Zoological Society of London.
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