Malagarion borbonica (Morelet, 1860)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Vitrina borbonica Morelet, 1860 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Missing (i.e. possibly extinct) (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017)
Distribution
Réunion, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Syntype:
NHMUK ZOO 1893.2.4.1130
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.
Griffiths, O. L. and Florens, V. F. B. (2006). A field guide to the non-marine molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) and the northern dependencies of Mauritius. Bioculture Press: Mauritius. Pp. i–xv, 1–185.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Malagarion borbonicus (Morelet, 1860). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289494 on 2022-03-24
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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