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Leucocharis porphyrochila Dautzenberg & Bernier, 1901

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Leuchocharis porphyrocheila (Dautzenberg & Bernier, 1901) [orth. error]; Leucocharis porphyrocheila (Dautzenberg & Bernier, 1901) [orth. error]; Leucocharis porphyrochila rubicunda Dautzenberg, 1902; Placostylus (Leucocharis) porphyrochila (Dautzenberg & Bernier, 1901)

 

Conservation Status

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

Last record: 1900's (Mollusc Specialist Group, 1996b)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

New Caledonia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

MNHN-IM-2000-23293

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Dautzenberg, P. and Bernier, J. (1901). Description d'un Bulimulidé nouveau provenant de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 49(3): 215-216.


Other references:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Barker, G. M.; Brodie, G.; Bogitini, L.; Pippard, H. (2016). Diversity and current conservation status of Melanesian–New Zealand placostyline land snails (Gastropoda : Bothriembryontidae), with discussion of conservation imperatives, priorities and methodology issues. Pacific Conservation Biology. 22(3): 203. https://doi.org/10.1071/pc14929

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.

Dautzenberg P. (1902 "1901"). Descriptions de coquilles nouvelles provenant de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 49(4): 299-302, pl. 8.

Eldridge, Niles. (1998). Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Franc, A. (1957). Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de l'archipel néo-calédonien. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. ser. A (Zoologie), 13: 1-200, 24 pls.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Mollusc Specialist Group. (1996a). Leucocharis porphyrocheila. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 18 July 2013.

Mollusc Specialist Group. (1996b). Leucocharis porphyrocheila. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T11896A3313425. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T11896A3313425.en. Downloaded on 26 June 2021.

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Leucocharis porphyrochila Dautzenberg & Bernier, 1901. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1362676 on 2022-04-02

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

http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/new_caledonia.pdf

 

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