Dancea bewsheriana (Morelet, 1875)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Helix bewsheriana Morelet, 1875 (original combination); Caelatura bewsheri (Morelet, 1875) [orth. error]; Plegma bewsheriana (Morelet); Plegma bewsheri Morelet, 1875 [orth. error]
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: subfossil
Distribution
Mauritius & Rodrigues
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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.
Eldridge, Niles. (1998). Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Florens, Vincent. (1996). Mollusques terrestres récoltés dans les grottes de Rodrigues. Bulletin Phaethon 3: 42-43.
Griffiths, Owen L. and Florens, Vincent F. B. (2006). A Field Guide of the Non-marine Molluscs of the Mascarene Islands: (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Reunion) and the Northern Dependencies of Mauritius. Mauritius: Bioculture Press. 185 pp. [p. 116]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Dancea bewsheriana (Morelet, 1875). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289470 on 2022-03-07
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.