Partula jackieburchi (Kondo, 1981)
Polynesian tree-snail (generic)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Samoana jackieburchi Kondo, 1981
Conservation Status
Missing (Coote & Gerlach, 2024, 2025)
Last record: 1970's (Coote & Gerlach, 2024, 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Kondo, Y. (1980). Samoana jackieburchi, new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Partulidae). Malacol. Rev. 13(1-2): 25-32.
Other references:
Coote, T. (2007). Partulids on Tahiti: differential persistence of a minority of endemic taxa among relict populations. American Malacological Bulletin 22(1): 83-87. [Abstract]
Coote, T. (2009). Samoana jackieburchi. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 July 2013.
Coote, T. (2016). Partula jackieburchi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T16340A103158688. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T16340A103158688.en. Accessed on 30 June 2022.
Coote, T. and Gerlach, J. (2024). Partula jackieburchi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024: e.T16340A119131826. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T16340A119131826.en. Accessed on 10 August 2026.
Coote, T. and Gerlach, J. (2025). Partula jackieburchi (amended version of 2024 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T16340A261109139. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T16340A261109139.en. Accessed on 08 August 2026.
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.
Gerlach, Justin. (2016). Icons of Evolution: Pacific Island tree-snails, family Partulidae. Cambridge, U.K.: Phelsuma Press. [Description of new species] [List of synonyms]
Johnson, M. S., Murray, J. and Clarke, B. (1986). High genetic similarities and low heterozygosities in land snails of the genus Samoana from the Society Islands. Malacologia 27: 97-106.
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Partula jackieburchi (Y. Kondo, 1981). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=956942 on 2026-07-17
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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