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Partula cytherea Cooke & Crampton, 1930

Tahiti tree-snail (generic)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1977?

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Papenoo Valley, Tahiti, Society Islands

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Cooke, C.M. Jr. & Crampton, H.E. 1930. New species of Partula. Occ. Pap. B.P. Bishop Mus. 9(11): 3-9.

 

Other references:

Coote, T. (2007). Partulids on Tahiti: differential persistence of a minority of endemic taxa among relict populations. American Malacological Bulletin 22(1): 83-87. [Abstract]

Coote, T. (2009). Partula cytherea. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 29 August 2012.

Coote, T. 2009. Partula cytherea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16337A5603771. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16337A5603771.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

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.

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