Partula dentifera dentifera Pfeiffer, 1852 (1853? 1854?)
Polynesian tree-snail (generic)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Partula dentifera Pfeiffer, 1852
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild
Last record: before 1991
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Distribution
Raiatea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Coote, T. (2009). Partula dentifera. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16286A5597102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16286A5597102.en . Downloaded on 09 November 2015.
Coote, T. and Loeve, E. (2003). From 61 species to five: endemic tree snails of the Society Islands, French Polynesia fall prey to an ill-judged biological control programme. Oryx 37(1): 91-96.
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.
Dalrymple, S. E., Abeli, T., Ewen, J. G., Gilbert, T. C., Hogg, C. J., Lloyd, N. A., Moehrenschlager, A., Rodríguez, J. P. and Smith, D. (2023). Addressing Threats and Ecosystem Intactness to Enable Action for Extinct in the Wild Species. Diversity 15: 268. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020268
Lee, Taehwan et al. (2014). Evolutionary history of a vanishing radiation: isolation-dependent persistence and diversification in Pacific Island partulid tree snails. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 202.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
http://islandbiodiversity.com/dentifera.htm