Advena stoddartii flosculus (Cox, 1866:48)
Stoddart's helicarionid land snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Helix flosculus Cox, 1866:695 (original combination); Carthaca flosculus (Cox, 1866:695); Quintalia flosculus (Cox, 1866:48)
Helix patescens was removed from the synonymy of this species by (Hyman et al., 2023).
Conservation Status
Extinct (Mollusc Specialist Group, 1996a,b; Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017; Hyman et al., 2024:S1 Appendix)
Last record: pre-1945 (Hyman et al., 2024:S1 Appendix)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Norfolk Island, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Cox, J. C. (1866). Description d'espèces nouvelles provenant d'Australie et des îles Solomon et Norfolk. Journal de Conchyliologie 14: 45-48.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. 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.
Cox, J. C. (1870). Descriptions of seventeen new species of land shells from the South Sea Islands, in the cabinet of Mr John Brazier of Sydney. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1870: 81-85.
Hyman, Isabel T., Caiza, Jennifer and Köhler, Frank. (2023). Systematic revision of the microcystid land snails endemic to Norfolk Island (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) based on comparative morpho-anatomy and mitochondrial phylogenetics. Invertebrate Systematics 37(6): 334-443. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS22049
Hyman, Isabel T., Van Sluys, M., Foon, J. K., Macgregor, N. A., Anderson, A. H., Patel, T., et al. (2024). The challenge of preventing extinctions: Lessons from managing threatened land snails on Norfolk Island. PLoS ONE 19(12): e0314300. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314300 [S1 Appendix (Conservation assessments of Norfolk Island land snails)]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Quintalia flosculus (Cox, 1866). Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1150026 on 2022-03-26
MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Advena stoddartii flosculus (J. C. Cox, 1866). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1666653 on 2023-07-26
Mollusc Specialist Group. (1996a). Quintalia flosculus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 28 January 2012.
Mollusc Specialist Group. (1996b). Quintalia flosculus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T19057A8803034. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T19057A8803034.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Neuweger, Diana, White, Peter and Ponder, Winston F. (2001). Land snails from Norfolk Island sites. In: The Prehistoric Archaeology of Norfolk Island, Southwest Pacific, ed. Atholl Anderson and Peter White. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 27: 115-122.
Pilsbry. (1892). Man. Conch. (Tyron), ser. 2, 8: 77.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
Sykes. (1900). Proc. Mal. Soc. (Lond.) 4: 143.
Varman, R. V. J. P. (1991). Conchological Survey 1983-90: Manuscript of Land Mollusca Fossiliferous and Present Day. Unpublished manuscript.
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