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Glacidorbis costatus Ponder & Avern, 2000

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017)

 

The original scientific desription (Ponder & Avern, 2000) simply states that the species is probably recently extinct. It's extinction probably occurred in the early part of last century (i.e. c.1900-1930) as the result of the drainage of its swamp habitat.

 

Distribution

Pulbeena Swamp, NW Tasmania, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Ponder, W. F. and Avern, G. J. (2000). The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 52(3): 307-353.

 

Other references:

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.

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Glacidorbis costatus Ponder & Avern, 2000 †. Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1296508 on 2022-04-03

Ponder, Winston F. (2019). Glacidorbidae Ponder, 1986, pp. 143-144. In: Lydeard, C. and Cummings, K. S. (eds.). Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.

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