Achatinella thaanumi Pilsbry & Cooke, 1914
Thaanum’s Oahu tree-snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Achatinella thaamuni Pilsbry & Cooke, 1914 (orthographic error)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: "rare since 1900"
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.
Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772
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 thaanumi. 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 thaanumi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T202A13049902. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T202A13049902.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.