Partula hebe hebe Pfeiffer, 1846
Tapairu tree snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Partula hebe hebe Pfeiffer, 1846; Partula hebe bella Pease, 1871; bella Hartman, 1881 (in part); globosa Carpenter in Pease, 1865
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Distribution
Raiatea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pfeiffer, L. 1846. Descriptions of twenty new species of Helicea, in the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 13: 37-43.
Other references:
Coote, Trevor. (2009). Partula hebe. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16275A5595210. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16275A5595210.en. Downloaded on 12 November 2015.
Coote, Trevor 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
Gouveia, Ana Rita Peres Cardoso. (2011). Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Population Dynamics of Captive Partula Snails. Thesis, Imperial College London. 123 pp.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
Smith, Donal et al. (2023). Extinct in the wild: The precarious state of Earth’s most threatened group of species. Science 379(6634): eadd2889. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add2889