Rhachistia vesiculata (Benson, 1859)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Bulimus vesiculatus Benson, 1859 (protonym); Rachis vesiculatus (Benson, 1859); Rhachistia vesiculatus (Benson, 1859)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017)
Distribution
Mauritius
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Benson, W. H. (1859). Descriptions of several new land shells from Mauritius. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 3: 98-100.
Other references:
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.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Rhachistia vesiculata (Benson, 1859). Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1319619 on 2022-04-23
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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