Erepta pyramidalis Griffiths & Florens, 2004
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Erepta sp. (Eldredge, 1998:197)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017)
Distribution
Mauritius
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: AMS C204752 ("adult")
Type locality: "Mauritius, 750m S. of Mont Blanc"
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Griffiths, Owen Lee and Florens, F. B. Vincent. (2004). Ten new species of Mascarene land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and their conservation status. Molluscan Research 24: 161-177.
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.
Eldridge, Niles. (1998). Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
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