Tropidophora semilirata (Morelet, 1881)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Tropidophora semilineata (erroneously used by Bouchet & von Cosel, (1996))
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in April 2001
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
This species, long thought extinct, was rediscovered by Dr P. Bouchet, Mr A. Abdou, and possibly Owen Griffiths, during surveys on Mayotte sometime during April 2001, when they conducted a survey for two weeks (Griffiths, 2002).
Distribution
Mayotte, Comoros Islands
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.
Bouchet, P. & von Cosel, R. 1996. Tropidophora semilineata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T22343A9370592. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22343A9370592.en. Downloaded on 16 May 2018.
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.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Griffiths, Owen. (2002). [url=http://islandbiodiversity.com/Phelsuma%2010-6.pdf]Survey of the non marine molluscs of Mayotte[/url]. Phelsuma [b]10[/b]: 49-52.