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Dupontia affouchensis Griffiths, 2000

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1830's or before?

 

Distribution

Rodrigues (south-west), Mascarene Islands

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Griffiths, Owen Lee. (2000). Nine new species of Mascarene land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Molluscan Research 20(2): 37-50. [Abstract]

 

Other 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.

Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/22712/dupontia-affouchensis

 

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