Partula eremita Crampton & Cooke, 1953
Hermit tree-snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: late 1980's?
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Tahaa, Society Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Crampton, H.E. & Cooke, C.M. J. 1953. New Species of Partula from Southeastern Polynesia. Occ. Pap. B.P. Bishop Mus. 21(8): 135-159.
Other references:
Coote, T. (2009). Partula eremita. 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 eremita. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16339A5604033. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16339A5604033.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
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.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.