Achatinella decora (Férussac, 1821)
Decorated Oahu tree-snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
6 synonyms:
Achatinella perversa Swainson; Achatinella guernea Frick; Apex tumefactus Gulick; Apex decorus Ferrussac; Helix decora Ferussac; Turbo lugubris sinistrorsus Chemnitz. (1795: pl. 213, figs 3014, 3015)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: "uncommon by 1900"
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
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Pilsbry, H. A. and Cooke, C. M. Jr. (1912-1914). Manual of Con-chology. Structural and systematic. With illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Vol.22. Achatinellidae. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. lviii + 428p., 63pls
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.