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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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