Partula tristis Crampton & Cooke, 1953
Polynesian tree-snail (generic)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1992
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Globally extinct according to (Cowie et al., 2017)
Distribution
Raiatea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Crampton, H. E. and Cooke, C. M. J. (1953). New Species of Partula from Southeastern Polynesia. Occ. Pap. B.P. Bishop Mus. 21(8): 135-159.
Other references:
Coote, T. (2009). Partula tristis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16330A5602882. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16330A5602882.en. Downloaded on 12 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
Gouveia, Ana Rita Peres Cardoso. (2011). Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Population Dynamics of Captive Partula Snails. Thesis, Imperial College London. 123 pp.
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.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.