Biotocus turbinatus (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Tomogeres turbinatus L. Pfeiffer, 1845 (original combination); Tomigerus turbinatus (Pfeiffer, 1845); Tornigenus turbinatus biolocus Pfeiffer, 1845; Helix tomigeroides S. Moricand, 1846
Conservation Status
Extinct (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Brazil
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pfeiffer, L. (1845). Descriptions of new species of land shells from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 13(147): 43-45.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
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.
Mansur, M. C. D. (1996). Tomigerus turbinatus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 27 July 2013.
Mansur, M.C.D. 1996. Tomigerus turbinatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T29616A9505033. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T29616A9505033.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Biotocus turbinatus (L. Pfeiffer, 1845). Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1055187 on 2022-04-02
Moricand, S. (1846). Troisième supplément au mémoire sur les coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles de la province de Bahia, envoyées par. M.J. Blanchet. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève, 11: 147-160. Genève.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Grafíca Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo. 390 pp. [p. 178]