Megalobulimus cardosoi Morretes, 1952
Cardoso’s megabulimulus
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Megalolulimus cardosoi Moiretes, 1952 [orth. error]
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Brazil
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Morretes, F. L. (1952). Novas espécies brasileiras da família Strophocheilidae. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de São Paulo 8(4): 109-126.
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.
Mansur, M. C. D. (1996a). Megalobulimus cardosoi. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 21 July 2013.
Mansur, M.C.D. 1996b. Megalobulimus cardosoi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T41213A10414562. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T41213A10414562.en. Accessed on 18 June 2022.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Megalobulimus cardosoi (Morretes, 1952). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1448809 on 2022-04-03
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
Salvador, Rodrigo B., Charles, Laurent, Simone, Luiz R. L. and Maestrati, Philippe. (2018). Presumed extinct land snail Megalobulimus cardosoi found again in Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve, north-east Brasil. Tentacle 26: 13-14.
Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Grafíca Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo. 390 pp.