Partula mirabilis Crampton, 1924
Navenave tree snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild
Last record: 1984-5 or later
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Distribution
Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Crampton, H. E. (1924). New and significant species of Partula from Moorea, Society Islands. Nautilus 37: 109-118.
Other references:
Clarke, Bryan, Murray, James and Johnson, Michael S. (1984). The Extinction of Endemic Species by a Program of Biological Control. Pacific Science 38(2): 97-104.
Coote, Trevor. (2005). Surveys on Moorea, March – June 2005. The search for populations of endemic partulids. Unpublished report.
Coote, Trevor. (2009). Partula mirabilis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16277A5595487. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16277A5595487.en. Downloaded on 14 November 2015.
Coote, T. and Loeve, E. (2003). From 61 species to five: endemic tree snails of the Society Islands, French Polynesia fall prey to an ill-judged biological control programme. Oryx 37(1): 91-96.
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.
Dalrymple, S. E., Abeli, T., Ewen, J. G., Gilbert, T. C., Hogg, C. J., Lloyd, N. A., Moehrenschlager, A., Rodríguez, J. P. and Smith, D. (2023). Addressing Threats and Ecosystem Intactness to Enable Action for Extinct in the Wild Species. Diversity 15: 268. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020268
Lee, Taehwan et al. (2014). Evolutionary history of a vanishing radiation: isolation-dependent persistence and diversification in Pacific Island partulid tree snails. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 202.
Murray, J., Murray, E., Johnson, M. S. and Clarke, B. C. (1988). The Extinction of Partula on Moorea. Pacific Science 42(3-4): 150-153.
Smith, Donal et al. (2023). Extinct in the wild: The precarious state of Earth’s most threatened group of species. Science 379(6634): eadd2889. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add2889