Achatinella spaldingi Pilsbry & Cooke, 1914
Spalding’s Oahu tree-snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct (WCMC, 1992:207)
Last record: 1938 (WCMC, 1992:207; Mollusc Specialist Group, 1996b)
IUCN status: Extinct
Distribution
Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pilsbry, Henry Augustus and Cooke, C. Montague. (1914). Achatinellidae. Manual Conch. (2) 22(88): 177-428, i-lviii, pis. 40-63.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, 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.
Greenwald, Noah, Suckling, Kieran F., Hartl, Brett and Mehrhoff, L. A. (2019). Extinction and the U.S. Endangered Species Act. PeerJ 7: e6803 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6803 [Supplemental Information (Extinct or possibly extinct listed species)]
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Mollusc Specialist Group. (1996a). Achatinella spaldingi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 20 September 2011.
Mollusc Specialist Group. 1996b. Achatinella spaldingi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T198A13049179. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T198A13049179.en. Downloaded on 26 June 2021.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). (1993). Recovery Plan for the O’ahu Tree Snails of the Genus Achatinella. U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon. 64 pp. + 64 pp. of appendices + 5 figs.
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). (2011). Oahu tree snails (Achatinella spp.) 5-Year Review. https://ecos.fws.gov/docs/five_year_review/doc3903.pdf
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1992). Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's living resources. London: Chapman & Hall. xx + 594 pp.
Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.