Achatinella vulpina (Férussac, 1821)
Rusty Oahu tree-snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Achatinella vulpina (Férussac, 1824) [incorrect year; used by (Hadfield & Hadway, 1996)]; Achatinella castanea Reeve; Achatinella adusta Reeve; Achatinella ernestina Baldwin; Achatinella olivacea Reeve; Achatinella vrasinus Reeve; Achatinella virens Gulick; Achatinella cucumis Gulick; Achatinella analoga Gulick; Achatinella longisvira Smith; Achatinella colorata Gulick; Achatinella colorata Reeve; Achatinella consanguinea Smith; Achatinella ustulata Newcomb; Achatinella tricolor Smith; Achatinella prasinus Reeve; Achatinella diluta Smith; Achatinella ernestina Baldwin; Helix vulpina Ferussac
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1965
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Cowie Robert H., Héros Virginie, Yeung Norine W. and Hayes Kenneth A. (2016). Annotated catalogue of types of Hawaiian land and fresh-water snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations. Zoosystema 38(2): 245-266.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Hadfield, M. & Hadway, L. (1996). Achatinella vulpina. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 20 September 2011.
IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
USFWS [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]. (1993). Recovery Plan for the O’ahu Tree Snails of the Genus Achatinella. U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon. 64 pp. + 64 pp. of appendices + 5 figs.
Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.